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
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSJub1A1aIk
― Try Leuchars More! (dowd), Friday, 25 April 2014 06:12 (ten years ago) link
I voted for Neptune because in 1989, I was lucky to have a pass into JPL during Voyager 2's closest approach to Neptune and the Triton barnstorming. The bandwidth is far better now, but I have a specific nostalgia for that era. Late night hang out in an auditorium filled with scientists and news media all jacked on coffee waiting for each frame to come down. The local cable channel ran a JPL feed on an unused station. I'd leave the TV tuned to it for hours and watch Neptune's crescent get smaller in the rear-view mirror one frame at a time.
Of the five spaceships leaving the solar system, four of them have a thoughtful message from Carl Sagan on them. (he was around at fly-by night)
The fifth one has my half-scrawled signature on it.*
*along with signatures of all of JPL, whoever was there for open house, and whoever signed the Internet form.
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 25 April 2014 06:51 (ten years ago) link