Sanael Posted October 9, 2019 Share Posted October 9, 2019 4 minutes ago, Doug Sundseth said: If you want a real planet, Saturn, because its density is low enough that it would float in a bathtub. (Though it would leave a ring.) UUUUGGGGGHHHHHHHH! *facepalm-and-slow-drag* 54 minutes ago, TaleSpinner said: October 9: Other than the one we are currently inhabiting, what's your favorite planet and why? For a real planet, I'd love to see us colonize Venus, because I think a real-life Bespin would be pretty sweet. For fiction, I love the rediscovery of tech in the later PERN series, plus I want a pseudodragon familiar. But it's a toss up between that and Arrakis. I want to walk without rhythm and ride a worm! 4 9 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thoramel Posted October 9, 2019 Share Posted October 9, 2019 (edited) 1 hour ago, TaleSpinner said: October 9: Other than the one we are currently inhabiting, what's your favorite planet and why? Real: Mercury. Craters the size of Texas, scarps a mile high, actually shedding enough material it has a tail. All pretty cool. Fictional: Arrakis. Because I've always loved that setting in the books. Edited October 9, 2019 by Thoramel Typo 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crowley Posted October 9, 2019 Share Posted October 9, 2019 1 hour ago, TaleSpinner said: October 9: Other than the one we are currently inhabiting, what's your favorite planet and why? GJ 1214b. Fictional, probably Risa. 5 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CashWiley Posted October 9, 2019 Share Posted October 9, 2019 20 hours ago, TaleSpinner said: Holy carp Cash!!! I thought that was a photo with really good lighting and composition. Then I realized that you, for lack of a better word, drew it (the word "draw" seems totally inadequate here). Speechless... Thanks! It was an experiment in pushing a tighter style than I've been doing overall. Anyone can do it, just have to get your training from the best sources you can find and put in the time. The latter is where I tend to fall short, but I really didn't expect to do much before retirement (in 10+ years), so...I'm just happy to be making progress now. And let this be an object lesson...I start up my new class next week: head drawing fundamentals. I have one collector (yay!) and she was shocked when I told her about the class. But when I did the head drawing class this spring, my alignment for eyes was consistently wonky enough for me to push fundamentals back to the top of the priority list. It's a critiqued class, so I'll also (for the first time) get feedback on my fundamentals (and I'll let the instructor know my focus on the abstraction portion). 2 hours ago, TaleSpinner said: October 9: Other than the one we are currently inhabiting, what's your favorite planet and why? I love them all (and the moons! Enceladus is my favorite moon). But if I have to pick, it's easy: Jupiter. Those clouds are so amazing, I remember being a kid in the 70s drinking in the NASA photo books my grandfather kept on the coffee table. I still talk to grandpa about space, sometimes. He would've loved the crazy imaging we have now! 9 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colonel Kane Posted October 9, 2019 Share Posted October 9, 2019 2 hours ago, TaleSpinner said: October 9: Other than the one we are currently inhabiting, what's your favorite planet and why? Reality: None, each is its own unique place. I would love to visit each and everyone of them and discover its beauty and danger. Fictional: See above. Although if I have to pick one it would be there one I created for My GURPS rpg, or the one I am currently creating to D&D. the reason, I am a God there and could do anything I pleased and no one could or would stop me. I am very hard person to please. I want it all, and I want it now........ 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
klarg1 Posted October 9, 2019 Share Posted October 9, 2019 (edited) 8 hours ago, TaleSpinner said: October 9: Other than the one we are currently inhabiting, what's your favorite planet and why? Saturn, because it's pretty, and because it's the first planet I got to look at through a large telescope. (Local observatory had open an open tour back during my first week of college) Edited October 9, 2019 by klarg1 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TGP Posted October 9, 2019 Share Posted October 9, 2019 4 hours ago, TaleSpinner said: October 9: Other than the one we are currently inhabiting, what's your favourite planet and why? Oerth That's where Greyhawk is. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doug Sundseth Posted October 9, 2019 Share Posted October 9, 2019 4 minutes ago, TGP said: Oerth That's where Greyhawk is. Ah yes, a world where the very survival of the entire world depends on the competence, persistence, and good will of a group of 18th level characters who are seventeen years old and deeply chaotic. Every single week. 1 9 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pezler the Polychromatic Posted October 9, 2019 Share Posted October 9, 2019 4 hours ago, TaleSpinner said: October 9: Other than the one we are currently inhabiting, what's your favorite planet and why? Do demiplanes count? 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sylverthorne Posted October 9, 2019 Share Posted October 9, 2019 4 hours ago, TaleSpinner said: October 9: Other than the one we are currently inhabiting, what's your favorite planet and why? Uh.. Pern. Because dragons. (Did anyone seriously expect me to choose something else?) Real planet... erh.. I'unno. Jupiter is pretty? 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redambrosia Posted October 9, 2019 Share Posted October 9, 2019 4 hours ago, ManvsMini said: Pluto is my favorite, because yes, it IS a planet. I Ohana means family! Family means no one gets left behind or forgotten! 4 hours ago, TaleSpinner said: October 9: Other than the one we are currently inhabiting, what's your favorite planet and why? Neputune is a lovely shade of blue. Uranus is titled on its side and has such a subtle ring. Pluto has a heart shaped frozen sea. Venus and those thick, fluffy, poison clouds. Mars with its volcano bigger than any mountain anywhere else in the solar system. Jupiter’s clouds like a painting and all those moons. Mercury for its long slow burning days and long freezing nights. And, of course Saturn, with the lovely rings and all the moons. Picking one is impossible. 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CashWiley Posted October 9, 2019 Share Posted October 9, 2019 4 hours ago, ManvsMini said: Pluto is my favorite, because yes, it IS a planet. I don't care what Neil deGrasse Tyson claims, he is responsible for downgrading it. He can blame the international astronomy vote all he wants, won't change my mind. I was taught nine planets in the solar system, and I stick to that belief. We were also taught that the sun revolved around the Earth. Good science updates itself, no matter how we feel :) And Pluto went from being the tiny little hunk of barely planet to king of a whole new class of celestial objects, the plutoids! A KING! I welcome the plutoid overlord. 7 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jasper_the_2nd Posted October 9, 2019 Share Posted October 9, 2019 5 hours ago, TaleSpinner said: October 9: Other than the one we are currently inhabiting, what's your favorite planet and why? Reality: Jupiter. Big, bad and beautiful. Some really interesting moons. And I appreciate it taking out the occasional large body that could really mess up earth..... Fiction: Pern has to be up there. Fire breathing dragons that can teleport through space and time? Yes please. 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crowley Posted October 9, 2019 Share Posted October 9, 2019 (edited) You all need to expand your horizons beyond this little solar system. There are literally THOUSANDS* of other weird planets out there... *Thousands of millions most likely, or more, just in this galaxy, but thousands that we've discovered Edited October 9, 2019 by Crowley 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TGP Posted October 9, 2019 Share Posted October 9, 2019 18 minutes ago, Jasper_the_2nd said: Fiction: Pern has to be up there. Fire breathing dragons that can teleport through space and time? Yes please. And let's not forget dolphins that can talk. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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