The other planets in the solar system POLL

Be sure to consider Holst in your deliberations...

They used have a measurement of infinite resistance. When trillions of volts can use the vacuum of space as a conductor between Jupiter + a satellite it renders IR nonsense.

Hey Sanpaku, could you do a brief summary of how you believe Mars became a dead planet? No pressure like, I think you add a lot to these type of threads and love reading your responses.

the main theory about mars' current state, in my understanding, is more or less like:

mars is a lot smaller than earth, so as time went by its molten iron core cooled and volcanic activity on the planet stopped. the lack of a hot metallic core led to the death of mars' magnetic field, which meant the dangerous particles blasted out by the sun stripped the planet of its atmosphere. ta da, dead planet.

That is also my reading of Mars. I suppose that means our molten core is finite, but just hasn't cooled down yet because the extra mass gives it more time.

Mars is the only tectonically inert terrestrial planet, right?

Venus, for being the hottest, I'm so shallow.

Hottest despite being only second nearest the sun.

Saturn. Saturn. Saturn. Years ago when they were seemingly discovering new moons every minute, I was really into the jostling between Saturn and Jupiter and was totally cheering Saturn on. MORE MOONS FOR YOU, SATURN, YOU ROCK.

Jupiter is OK but it's no Saturn. And its rings are poxy.

MORE MOONS FOR YOU, SATURN, YOU ROCK GAS BALL.

Saturn has a giant hexagon. Close thread.

http://d1jqu7g1y74ds1.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/SaturnHex-RGB-11-28-12-JMajor.jpg

Almost turquoise, too.

saturn's hexagon looks like a creepy jello pancake O_O

you'll sing a different tune when we're all being transported to saturn, to escape earth's fire-y doom, in 15 years.

i don't care as long as I get to ride on the hula hoop

jupiter's gas giantness and saturn's rings have a lot to recommend them but venus and its atmosphere really do it for me. a place where the air was toxic and unimaginably hot really got into my imagination as a kid.

damn, this poll sent me back to my childhood when I was super into outer space. reading about all the crazy stuff happening in our own cosmic backyard just blows my mind.

and whoever said it up-thread about this being the hardest poll is otm. been thinking about it for hours and still can't pick a favourite.

voted saturn but now i'm wishing i voted jupiter, it just seems to have a lot more going on

same here xp. i was super into space as a kid but took it as more 'normal' because that's what kids do. now that i'm older i can understand how truly insane it all is that something like jupiter exists, and that we exist

do people know of science fiction that is good on the 'you can only vacillate between awe and terror' thing? I kind of remember 'No Particular Night or Morning' by Ray Bradbury being a bit like this, but it's been years since I read it.

Be sure to consider Holst in your deliberations...

― The Whittrick and Puddock (dowd), Tuesday, April 1, 2014 6:24 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

The other day on the local classical station I heard "Mars, the Bringer of War," and was all like THANK YOU FOR SO MANY MOVIE TRAILERS.

Dead heat between Neptune and Saturn for me.

Man, this takes me back to my childhood watching the photos on TV as the Voyagers sent them home. I still get a warm glow thinking about those 2 little dudes out there, heading off into interstellar space.

Auroras on Saturn's south pole: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Saturn.Aurora.HST.UV-Vis.jpg

Team Uranus is afwully quiet ITT imho.

*farts*

hey!

neptune is a little underrated imo, it gets overshadowed by the other gas giants. it's a beautiful planet though. i did a report on it in 5th grade, i drew up a really cool poster and made a styrofoam ball model of it and its moons

my uncle said that at the time that i "should send it to the president"

did u

haha, no

send it to the president of neptune

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWw4Qjy5-fk

Every time someone says "Uranus" I can only think of

http://comedycentral.mtvnimages.com/images/shows/Futurama/V_series/ftr_108_smelloscope_v6.jpg

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/d-brief/2014/04/03/hidden-ocean-discovered-on-saturns-moon-enceladus/

^ was just reading about that this morning, idk how anyone can pick a favorite given all the vast differences among just the other 7 planets, let alone including moons

The lunar butt jets are new to me.

PS - Am I using "lunar" correctly? Does it refer to any planetary, non-man-made satellite, or just to the one that orbits Earth?

ime it exclusively refers to Earth's moon ("Luna")

were there more than 9 planets in our solar system at one point? feel like we destroyed a few, just to watch 'em die.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LoG5bhofvMk

Write-in for Planet X

Pretty sure uranus will take this. huehuehue

Mercury making a play for the Pluto holdouts: http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/2014/03/16/solar-systems-smallest-planet-is-shrinking/

hehehehehe

Without life earth would become a water world, the importance of plate tectonics on life. http://nautil.us/issue/12/feedback/why-aliens-and-volcanoes-go-together

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/d-brief/2014/04/18/mountains-on-saturns-moon-iapetus-fell-from-the-sky/

It may sound like something out of “Chicken Little,” but at some point in the history of Saturn’s moon Iapetus, the sky was actually falling: Scientists reported this week that an entire 800-mile-long mountain range along the moon’s equator formed after it fell from space.

We should poll satellites once we're done with the planets

http://i.vimeocdn.com/video/304943403_640.jpg

Jon Anderson still quiet as to what "mountains come out of the sky and stand there" means

Neptune blue

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

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whoa Pluto with the sympathy vote bloc turning out in surprising force