cross-posted from: https://retrofed.com/c/ask@piefed.social/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!
Sagittarius A. Just to see what it’s like
Any place that has life, if it does. Like the theorized oceans under the ice on Europa or Enceladus. I want to see it. Otherwise, maybe Daphnis or Pan in Saturn’s rings. The view would hopefully be spectacular.
PSR J2322−2650 b, to watch the eternal sunset while walking in the diamond rain! Well, not exactly walking, as there is no solid surface on this planet.
More realistically, I’d like to visit Venus, Titan, Europa and Enceladus. Venus and Titan have opposite extreme conditions while maintaining a dense atmosphere and a solid surface, so it might be quite interesting to watch closely and compare. And Europa with Enceladus have a good chance of keeping extraterrestrial life in the depths of their oceans.
And of course, landing on 1I/Oumuamua and 3I/ATLAS would be thrilling!
I’d like to see Jupiter from the surface of Io, it is about the same distance than the Moon is from Earth but Jupiter is like 40 times the radius and has colours.
A flyby of the rings of Saturn.
Outside the solar system, any nebula and go just far enough as to see the entire Milky Way from the top.
Venus. There are some fascinating photos.
Same, but I’d prefer to be in a bubble at 1 atmosphere floating several thousand feet up, filled with earth air and vegetation. Surface there is no fun at all.
It’s a shame we prioritize martian colonization. Venus has a similuar gravity, so close enough to not worry about muscle degradation. We could build floating cloud City above the cruising pressure depths.
This says nothing about colonization – only about crewed NASA missions. And:
NASA never intended to seriously pursue HAVOC, instead using it as a development tool for analysis skills in young engineers.
It was a pie-in-the-sky concept used as an engineering challenge.
We prioritize Mars even though it’s farther than Venus and has lower gravity because you want to colonize the surface.
Uranus
Well I hear enough about Alpha Centauri, so a planet there.
The sun
praise
The Sun
That’d be a nice, quick end.
I don’t think that I have a lot of interest in sight-seeing.
However, we do have some candidates for potentially-habitable exoplanets, where we don’t have enough information due to our distance. Hard for astronomers to gather data. But you can see it — maybe take photos or whatever.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_potentially_habitable_exoplanets
Maybe consult with people who study them, get the most-likely candidate on that list and travel there and report back.
In this solar system, I think I’d like to visit one of Jupiter’s moons like Europa.
Outside the Sol system, I think I’d like to go to the Trappist 1 system to see if any of those exoplanets have liquid water.
Of course the number one place to visit
Wherever Olive Garden makes their never ending bread sticks.
Statistically speaking there has to be some other life out there. Although, with how rare that is and large the universe is, we’ll never find them, and they will never find us.
But with the magic of your question? I’ll go to the nearest planet with another spacefaring civilization!
I just need to remember to bring my towel.Also remember: don’t panic!
