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View Poll Results: What is your Favorite Planet?
Mercury 3 10.00%
Venus 1 3.33%
Earth 12 40.00%
Mars 2 6.67%
Jupiter 4 13.33%
Saturn 2 6.67%
Uranus 2 6.67%
Neptune 1 3.33%
Hoth 1 3.33%
Pluto 2 6.67%
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Re: Your Favorite Planet and Why?

Click to Expand / Collapse  Quote originally posted by jwenting ...
in fact, if Jupiter were discovered today it might well be classed as a protostar.
It's massive enough (or almost) for fusion to start, and emits a massive amount of radiation (most of it in the infrared) so there might even be fusion already.
Thats true, and if the radition "aura" from around Jupiter was visible (ie, if we could see infrared) it would be 13 times larger then the moon is in our night sky.

Take that Saturn.
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sorry, edit,(I new I had my facts mixed up, so I did a little check)
It wasn't a Infrared sphere i ment but an ionosphere, and it would be closer to 6 times larger then the moon (despite being so much further away)
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Re: Your Favorite Planet and Why?

My favourite body in the heavens is Europa, because it has the strongest chances of having oceanic life deep under the ice. So I voted for Jupiter as it's because of Europas' close orbit around jupiter that heated oceans below the ice are a possibility.

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I agree with Ancient Dragon. Where would we be without Earth?
If it wasn't for the stars there would be no heavier elements or carbon atoms and therefore no rocky planets with water and therefore no Earth and no us. It has always struck scientists as a bit uncanny that everything is... well just so. Add the smallest smidgen of heat to the equation or a tad more expansion and the whole thing falls apart.

If the big bang theory is right, every atom in your body was inside a star! Now that's no less amazing than some omnipotent being making us from a pinch of dust and a spare rib.
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Something else to ponder: Take a sock, as it wears and gets holes you darn the holes. Eventually after some time all the original fibres are replaced. Is it the same sock ?

Let that sink in for a moment....

Over a cycle of approximately 7 years your body replaces all it's cells!

Unfortunately entropy ensures the darning needle ultimately becomes blunt and no further darning is possible.

Sorry bit off topic, but you know planets -> universe -> life -> everything... bit hard to know where to stop.
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I like Earth. =)
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Re: Your Favorite Planet and Why?

I also like jupiter

All the other planets are puny and weak in comparison to the mighty jupiter!
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What about that new one they just discovered, the one very like earth but with more gravity?
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Earth....No doubt.....
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oh why is pluto a choice? It is not even a planet..
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Uh.. perhaps my favorite would be the planet we all live on(except in class)... Earth....
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