cross-posted from: https://retrofed.com/c/ask@piefed.social/p/2414142/if-you-could-visit-any-celestial-body-outside-of-earth-which-would-it-be
Assuming you are properly equipped to handle the extreme conditions of space, of course. Does not have to be a planet, or even in the Solar System. Any planet, moon, asteroid, star, or other celestial body is available in this hypothetical!
A planet or object around J1407b. Just throw that into image search and you will instantly see why.
Ok that is pretty cool. It isn’t confirmed according to Wikipedia, and of course like all exoplanets be mindful that all the images are just artist’s conceptions based on measured data
I know, but one can dream!
Whichever closest planet has intelligent life that’s amenable to receiving extraterrestrial visitors so I can tell them “don’t worry guys there IS life out there and we’re rooting for you.”
Hell yeah!
I wanna go to URANUS
Set sail to the most habitable world outside of Earth! Whatever we deem the most likely exoplanet to be earthlike on the day our fusion drive starts the acceleration burn, that’s where I’d want to go looking if there’s a second evolutionary tree to explore.
How did they solve heat management? Did they develop photon-sensing organs like we did? What’s the mechanism for passing genetic information between iterations (maybe they don’t call them generations)? Do they flap their meat to communicate, the way earth animals’ vocal tracts do? Are they made out of meat?
And if there is no life, I’d learn a lot about geology, the local solar system and, subsequently back home, all the more appreciate what we’ve got going on Planet A ❤️
I’d have a nice dinner at the restaurant at the end of the universe.
Definitly Titan. I wanna make love on the shore of a liquid methane sea.
Venus. There are some fascinating photos.
Same, but I’d prefer to be in a bubble at 1 atmosphere floating several thousand feet up, filled with earth air and vegetation. Surface there is no fun at all.
It’s a shame we prioritize martian colonization. Venus has a similuar gravity, so close enough to not worry about muscle degradation. We could build floating cloud City above the cruising pressure depths.
This says nothing about colonization – only about crewed NASA missions. And:
NASA never intended to seriously pursue HAVOC, instead using it as a development tool for analysis skills in young engineers.
It was a pie-in-the-sky concept used as an engineering challenge.
We prioritize Mars even though it’s farther than Venus and has lower gravity because you want to colonize the surface.
The caustic atmosphere is a bigger hurdle than the pressure.
Any place that has life, if it does. Like the theorized oceans under the ice on Europa or Enceladus. I want to see it. Otherwise, maybe Daphnis or Pan in Saturn’s rings. The view would hopefully be spectacular.
I don’t think that I have a lot of interest in sight-seeing.
However, we do have some candidates for potentially-habitable exoplanets, where we don’t have enough information due to our distance. Hard for astronomers to gather data. But you can see it — maybe take photos or whatever.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_potentially_habitable_exoplanets
Maybe consult with people who study them, get the most-likely candidate on that list and travel there and report back.
In this solar system, I think I’d like to visit one of Jupiter’s moons like Europa.
Outside the Sol system, I think I’d like to go to the Trappist 1 system to see if any of those exoplanets have liquid water.
Of course the number one place to visit
Wherever Olive Garden makes their never ending bread sticks.
Well I hear enough about Alpha Centauri, so a planet there.
Careful, I hear the local wildlife is murder…
Statistically speaking there has to be some other life out there. Although, with how rare that is and large the universe is, we’ll never find them, and they will never find us.
But with the magic of your question? I’ll go to the nearest planet with another spacefaring civilization!
I just need to remember to bring my towel.Also remember: don’t panic!
The Sun
That’d be a nice, quick end.
Uranus
