(November 28, 2023 at 3:53 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:(November 28, 2023 at 1:15 pm)Anomalocaris Wrote: it is possibly for an average human to sustain powered flight by flapping wings attached to his or her arms on Saturn’s moon Titan, in the manner of Icarus. This is because Titan’s atmosphere is 50 % denser than Earth’s while Titan’s surface gravity is only 1/10 that of the earth.
Does that take into account the mass of the breathing apparatus and thermal gear?
Boru
Don’t know for sure, but judging from what the author explicitly took into consideration in evaluating other similarly outlandish scenarios, I suspect he did take those into account.
