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Which is your favorite planet and why? (kbin.social)

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I would choose Mars, mostly because of all the plans that we have for it. Imagine having people actually living there, it sounds insane!

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[–] _galactose@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Apart from Earth, Venus. Recently starting watching loads of content about Venus, and I just find it so fascinating how despite having 90% the gravity and 95% the radius it is so different to Earth. It makes me really wonder about habitability, and how lucky it is how things are. I almost feel sad that Venus is the way that it is, and that's why it's so interesting.

I'm hoping we find out a lot more about Venus in our lifetimes.

[–] DreamerOfImprobableDreams@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Agreed. We know so little about Venus compared to Mars despite it being slightly closer to us. That whole drama with the phosphene gas a few years back really revealed how much there is to learn there.

I also love that one of the serious ways scientists have proposed for colonizing Venus is to build cities that float in its clouds at the altitude where the atmospheric pressure / temperature are roughly the same as Earth's. It's simultaneously batshit insane and hoplessly romantic.