cross-posted from: https://retrofed.com/c/[email protected]/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!

  • NovaVeles@lemmy.world
    2·
    4 days ago

    A planet or object around J1407b. Just throw that into image search and you will instantly see why.

    • sbird@retrofed.comOPEnglish
      2·
      4 days ago

      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

  • Luc@lemmy.world
    3·
    6 days ago

    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 ❤️

  • early_riser@lemmy.world
    6·
    6 days ago

    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.”

  • GreyEyedGhost@piefed.caEnglish
    6·
    7 days ago

    Honestly, a nearly uncountable number of options, and you want me to pick one? I’d like to visit the Greater and Lesser Magellanic Clouds just to see our closest neighbors at the galactic level and look back at the Milky Way. I’d like to visit Andromeda, I’d like to visit all the bodies in our solar system that are large enough to collapse into a spheroid. I’d like to visit Halley’s Comet on the far side of its trip. I’d like to visit Alpha Centauri, just to see our closest stellar neighbor. I’d like to visit the nearest star to Sagittarius A*. I’d like to visit a recently collapsed stellar nursery, and a recent supernova. After the more interesting things, I’d like to see a few hundred ringed planets, a few hundred planets in the goldilocks zone of their stars, some single and binary star systems of all the major types, and on and on.

    And if all that was an option, why wouldn’t I want to live forever?

  • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 @pawb.socialEnglish
    4·
    7 days ago

    I’d wanna walk on the surface of the sun.

    “You got a death wish or something?”

    No; I am assuming there would be sufficient tech to actually go to the sun and walk/swim on it. I bet it feels gnarly as hell and nobody else would think to do it.

    • billwashere@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      7 days ago

      I wanna land on Europa. Because I was told not to.

      All these worlds are yours except Europa. Attempt no landing there.

            • billwashere@lemmy.worldEnglish
              2·
              5 days ago

              It’s very good. As are the following sequels: 2061 and 3001. But then again Clarke Is one of my favorite golden age authors. I also highly recommend the Rama series: Rendezvous with Rama, Rama II, The Garden of Rama, Rama Revealed. Gentry Lee wrote two more in the same universe but I haven’t read them: Bright Messengers and Double Full Moon Night

  • BilboBargains@lemmy.world
    2·
    7 days ago

    I’d like to see the exoplanet that rains gemstones and amonia in a 1000kmh gale over lakes of mercury or whatever mad environment they were hypothesising, I forget.

  • yermaw@sh.itjust.works
    2·
    7 days ago

    Not sure if this is in the spirit of the question, because I know nothing of celestial objects.

    I’d want to go for away to see the milky way from outside, like how we can see the horsehead nebula.

    Failing that I want to go to the exact centre of the universe, or the very edge.