you'll sing a different tune when we're all being transported to saturn, to escape earth's fire-y doom, in 15 years.
― Daniel, Esq 2, Wednesday, 2 April 2014 01:31 (ten years ago) link
i don't care as long as I get to ride on the hula hoop
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 2 April 2014 01:34 (ten years ago) link
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.
― goole, Wednesday, 2 April 2014 15:56 (ten years ago) link
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.
― president of the people's republic of antarctica (Arctic Mindbath), Wednesday, 2 April 2014 16:02 (ten years ago) link
voted saturn but now i'm wishing i voted jupiter, it just seems to have a lot more going on
― coops all on coops tbh (crüt), Wednesday, 2 April 2014 16:04 (ten years ago) link
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
― global tetrahedron, Wednesday, 2 April 2014 16:05 (ten years ago) link
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.
― soref, Wednesday, 2 April 2014 16:13 (ten years ago) link
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.
― bi-polar uncle (its OK-he's dead) (Phil D.), Wednesday, 2 April 2014 16:27 (ten years ago) link
Dead heat between Neptune and Saturn for me.
― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 2 April 2014 17:29 (ten years ago) link
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.
― ornamental cabbage (James Morrison), Thursday, 3 April 2014 02:01 (ten years ago) link
Auroras on Saturn's south pole: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Saturn.Aurora.HST.UV-Vis.jpg
― ornamental cabbage (James Morrison), Thursday, 3 April 2014 02:02 (ten years ago) link
Team Uranus is afwully quiet ITT imho.
― StanM, Thursday, 3 April 2014 03:48 (ten years ago) link
*farts*
― mattresslessness, Thursday, 3 April 2014 04:06 (ten years ago) link
hey!
― waterbabies (waterface), Thursday, 3 April 2014 13:17 (ten years ago) link
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
― marcos, Thursday, 3 April 2014 13:44 (ten years ago) link
my uncle said that at the time that i "should send it to the president"
― marcos, Thursday, 3 April 2014 13:45 (ten years ago) link
did u
― waterbabies (waterface), Thursday, 3 April 2014 13:47 (ten years ago) link
haha, no
― marcos, Thursday, 3 April 2014 13:47 (ten years ago) link
send it to the president of neptune
― ciderpress, Thursday, 3 April 2014 13:50 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWw4Qjy5-fk
― how's life, Thursday, 3 April 2014 15:41 (ten years ago) link
Every time someone says "Uranus" I can only think of
http://comedycentral.mtvnimages.com/images/shows/Futurama/V_series/ftr_108_smelloscope_v6.jpg
― bi-polar uncle (its OK-he's dead) (Phil D.), Thursday, 3 April 2014 15:46 (ten years ago) link
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/d-brief/2014/04/03/hidden-ocean-discovered-on-saturns-moon-enceladus/
― Ned Zeppelin (Leee), Friday, 4 April 2014 17:22 (ten years ago) link
^ 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
― dan m, Friday, 4 April 2014 18:35 (ten years ago) link
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?
― Ned Zeppelin (Leee), Friday, 4 April 2014 18:54 (ten years ago) link
ime it exclusively refers to Earth's moon ("Luna")
― dan m, Friday, 4 April 2014 18:55 (ten years ago) link
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
― Daniel, Esq 2, Friday, 4 April 2014 21:27 (ten years ago) link
Write-in for Planet X
― robocop ELF (seandalai), Saturday, 5 April 2014 08:24 (ten years ago) link
Pretty sure uranus will take this. huehuehue
― Moka, Saturday, 5 April 2014 08:45 (ten years ago) link
Mercury making a play for the Pluto holdouts: http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/2014/03/16/solar-systems-smallest-planet-is-shrinking/
― Call the Doctorb, the B is for Brownstein (Leee), Thursday, 10 April 2014 21:16 (ten years ago) link
hehehehehe
― j., Thursday, 10 April 2014 21:24 (ten years ago) link
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
― xelab, Friday, 11 April 2014 07:16 (ten years ago) link
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.
― Call the Doctorb, the B is for Brownstein (Leee), Monday, 21 April 2014 22:58 (ten years ago) link
We should poll satellites once we're done with the planets
― silverfish, Tuesday, 22 April 2014 01:10 (ten years ago) link
http://i.vimeocdn.com/video/304943403_640.jpg
― pplains, Tuesday, 22 April 2014 01:20 (ten years ago) link
Jon Anderson still quiet as to what "mountains come out of the sky and stand there" means
― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 22 April 2014 01:22 (ten years ago) link
Neptune blue
― calstars, Tuesday, 22 April 2014 01:29 (ten years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Thursday, 24 April 2014 00:01 (ten years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Friday, 25 April 2014 00:01 (ten years ago) link
whoa Pluto with the sympathy vote bloc turning out in surprising force
― christmas candy bar (al leong), Friday, 25 April 2014 00:37 (ten years ago) link
BALONEY
― Karl Malone, Friday, 25 April 2014 00:38 (ten years ago) link
all those wasted votes and Mercury ffs!
― xelab, Friday, 25 April 2014 00:42 (ten years ago) link
I call for a runoff election.
― Aimless, Friday, 25 April 2014 00:47 (ten years ago) link
Nobody appreciates Mercury. Everyone goes for the bloated gasbags.
― jmm, Friday, 25 April 2014 00:51 (ten years ago) link
you're a....oh nevermind.
― ryan, Friday, 25 April 2014 00:55 (ten years ago) link
huh, uranus is not a favorite
hurhur
― mattresslessness, Friday, 25 April 2014 00:58 (ten years ago) link
no, I will not pull your finger.
― Aimless, Friday, 25 April 2014 00:59 (ten years ago) link
people don't understand the magnificence of the sun from mercury. JUST THINK ABOUT IT MAN
― Karl Malone, Friday, 25 April 2014 01:10 (ten years ago) link
it's like you're a 2-year-old staring up at the iron giant, only you're a planet and it's the SUN
― jmm, Thursday, April 24, 2014 8:51 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
just like in real life yo ... :-)
― bob abouille (Eisbaer), Friday, 25 April 2014 06:04 (ten years ago) link
that said, kinda surprised at the love for Neptune ... i voted for it, but as a goof.
― bob abouille (Eisbaer), Friday, 25 April 2014 06:05 (ten years ago) link