Dictionary.com/titan: "Titan ( P ) Pronunciation Key (ttn)
n.
Greek Mythology. One of a family of giants, the children of Uranus and Gaea, who sought to rule heaven and were overthrown and supplanted by the family of Zeus.
titan One of prodigious size, strength, or achievement: the twin titans of the Entertainment Industry (Shane & Phil).
The largest satellite of Saturn and the 11th in distance from the planet. It is the second largest satellite in the solar system. "
In Arthur C. Clarke's novel Imperial Earth, Titan is home to a human colony with a population of 250,000 and provides an important role in the Solar System's economics; Titan's atmosphere supplies the hydrogen needed to support interplanetary travel.
In Philip K. Dick's post-apocalyptic novel The Game-Players of Titan, a neurotic and suicidal man named Pete Garden must roll a three in Bluff, the game that's become a blinding obsession for the last inhabitants of Earth, against opponents who are from Titan.
In Stephen Baxter's novel Titan, a NASA mission to Titan must struggle to survive after a disastrous landing.
Kurt Vonnegut's novel The Sirens of Titan features a journey that climaxes on Titan.
In the BBC television show Red Dwarf, the character Lister illegally imports a cat from Titan that, through the action of hard radiation over millions of years, becomes the progenitor of a well-dressed, but not particularly intelligent species called Felis sapiens.
In the television show Starhunter, Titan features prominently as the former home of the character Dante, and is the site of a large colony.
In the 2000 AD comic series Judge Dredd, Titan is used as a penal colony, but, due to a writer's error, is in orbit around Jupiter. This was later explained as being due to a scientific experiment in teleportation.
In the Marvel Comics Universe, Titan is home to a colony of Eternals, a godlike race of men and women.
In the movie Gattaca (1997), Titan is the goal for a space mission at the movie's climax.
In the anime Cowboy Bebop (1998), Titan was once the site of a war. It is unclear whether there was a colony on the moon.
An Apple II game called Titan Empire had human inhabitants of this moon attempting to take over the solar system.
In the novel Shattered Faith by Trevor Mark, Titan is the center of a vast extraterrestrial civilization that is angered by an ancient injustice, and aims for Earth to seek revenge.
There is a novel by Alan E. Nourse, the American Science Fiction writer, that appeared in English on December 1954 called Trouble on Titan, translated into French as Revolte sur Titan in 1971.
In the table-top science fiction game Warhammer 40,000 the Grey Knights Space Marine chapter keep their Fortress-Monastery on Titan.
In the C64 computer game Project Firestart the setting of the story is located on a scientific space vessel which is floating near Titan in the Saturn system.
Flight on Titan, a short story by Stanley G. Weinbaum
In James P. Hogan's novel Code of the Lifemaker, Titan is inhabited by a race of Clanking Replicators
The Titan project is in response to a growing trend in North America for the development of complexes that offer ‘multi-purpose flexibility’ particularly in concert set-ups that include end and center stage, festival, and ‘intimate show’ seating. Mid-capacity complexes with a less than 10,000 person capacity are among the fastest growing segments of the industry. Increasingly performers in many entertainment categories and their fans, not to mention the crew prefer complexes with facilities and amenities tailored to meet the demands of the performance and backstage operations in Calgary, The Titan will be located in the inner city district or north of the City in proximity to major automobile and public transportation corridors and other complementary private and municipal facilities.
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