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^ of course that's a representation of Earth's relative size wrt to Jupiter, not an actual image of Earth seen from Jupiter.

My fave is Saturn. Other planets have rings and moons, but nothing as spectacular as Saturn's, even one of its own moons may have rings and its largest (Titan) has an atmosphere, the only moon in the solar system to have one.

the inset picture is Earth seen by the Cassini spacecraft, a tiny blue dot 1,200,000,000km from Saturn's rings with no indication of the wonders it contains, this and the Hubble Deep Field image, are sobering images that puts our existence in the Universe into dramatic perspective.

What?

My favorite was Uranus even back when I was an innocent, young little fellow who didn't know what exactly an anus was. Now it's a no-contest favorite.

Sean Trane wrote:

Jim Garten wrote:

Sean - have you been reading Kim Stanley Robinson by any chance?

Who's he??

>> I'll search on wiki

Nope, this has been my outview since the early 90's, when I started working in the Nuclear field.

Edit: Oh wow!!!!

Had no idea!!

The Mars trilogy

Main article: Mars trilogy

This trilogy is Robinson's best-known work. It is an extended work of science fiction that deals with the first settlement of the planet Mars by a group of scientists and engineers. Its three volumes are Red Mars, Green Mars, and Blue Mars, the titles of which mark the changes that the planet undergoes over the course of the saga. The tale begins with the first colonists leaving Earth for Mars in 2027 and covers the next 200 years of future history. By the conclusion of the story, Mars is heavily populated and terraformed, with a flourishing and complex political and social dimension.

Many threads of different characters' lives are woven together in the Mars Trilogy. Science, sociology, and politics are all covered in great detail, evolving over the course of the narrative. Robinson's fascination with science and technology is clear, although he balances this with a strong streak of humanity. Robinson's personal interests, including ecological sustainability, sexual dimorphism, and the scientific method, come through strongly.

This is really amazingly close to what I thought should happen.... Not that it's THAT amazing, because that's prtetty well the only way it can happen, realistically!!

I think I'll get on it soon

His vivid descriptions of Mars are amazing, really brings the planet to life so to speak, but I found his story telling is rather lacking.

Spending more than I should on Prog since 2005

Equality 7-2521 wrote:

It's more aesthetically pleasing than Jupiter's pimple.

I like both... but into Neptune's pic, there are two blue eyes.

let's just stay above the moral melee
prefer the sink to the gutter
keep our sand-castle virtues
content to be a doer
as well as a thinker,
prefer lifting our pen
rather than un-sheath our sword

It's more aesthetically pleasing than Jupiter's pimple.

"One had to be a Newton to notice that the moon is falling, when everyone sees that it doesn't fall. "

Neptune have a dark blue storm whih are even called the most vissios storm in the solar systems (exept solar winds) i think the storms their are like 500 km/h or something

http://www.universetoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/neptunecolor.jpg

Equality 7-2521 wrote:

aginor wrote:

I heard some rumoursa and speculation in the space section in the newpaper, that the asntronomers have a though that hteir might be a gigantic brown thingy, planet, outside of the outer borders of the solarsystem that are larger then Jupiter though less massive, but they havent really any solid evidence other then wild speculation. but idunno really,

it is also a threory that it might be a brown dwarf but i am not sure.....

There's some pretty solid evidence for it. They call it the Nemesis. It's not definitive though.

Asimov's book of that name is one of his best

That black hole is hiding a giant red star heading directly towards our solar system... what to do about it. to avoid the upcoming probable collision.

let's just stay above the moral melee
prefer the sink to the gutter
keep our sand-castle virtues
content to be a doer
as well as a thinker,
prefer lifting our pen
rather than un-sheath our sword

Jupiter is amazing, but it has a big red spot, which means it has a soviet section.

Saturn's rings are amazing, but we can't take seriously a planet that is as light (don't know the opposite english word for dense) as Saturn.

Mars and Venus are boring as hell. Venus' sulphur inferno at least puts it slightly ahead of the big red pile of boredom.

Mercury is good but too small and hot. I'm not into hot places (f**king Florida).

Uranus is not as good as mine.

Therefore, Neptune, cold as ice, wins.

And I demand Pluto's re-insertion.

I just read that today too. Pretty crazy universe we're in.

"One had to be a Newton to notice that the moon is falling, when everyone sees that it doesn't fall. "

noone is stil voting for the bravest planet of them all, in the solar system

Poll Question: Pick one
Poll Choice	Votes	Poll Statistics
Mercury	4	[5.41%]
Venus	6	[8.11%]
Mars	8	[10.81%]
Jupiter	14	[18.92%]
Saturn	16	[21.62%]
Uranus	10	[13.51%]
Neptune	16	[21.62%]
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