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the original gods who got overthrown by their own kids, then got moons named after them

means A person or thing of enormous size, strength, or influence — someone who dominates their field or towers over everyone else.

from From the Greek Titanes, the elder race of deities who ruled before the Olympian gods and were cast down by them. The name was later applied to anything colossal, and chemistry borrowed it for titanium (a notably strong metal), while astronomy hung 'Titan' on Saturn's largest moon. The Greeks themselves connected the word to titaino, 'to strain or stretch,' though that link is more legend than settled fact.

Saturn's moon
Titan has lakes of liquid methane and rain
Greek defeat
Zeus and siblings overthrew them in the Titanomachy
Thickest air
only moon with a dense atmosphere
Doomed ship
the Titanic borrowed their oversized name
Tough metal
titanium named for strength, not for them directly
for instance

saturn's titan — moon with methane lakes, discovered 1655, larger than mercury

titanic — rms titanic sank april 1912, 1,500+ deaths

tennessee titans — nfl team founded 1996, plays in nashville

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