Which planet would you like to visit if given a chance?

The one you’re from.

If I could fly through space and see Saturn as Cassini has, I would die happy.

Any that I could survive and return from.

Risa from Star Trek.

Visit? Mars is the only one you can walk on. Perhaps Mercury.

An exo-planet that is in the goldilocks zone with water.

I’m good with this one. As @stanleybmanly pointed out, it’d be tough to really get out and do much on any of the others besides Mars or possibly Mercury or some of the moons or exoplanets (e.g. Pluto) without detaching from my body or being in something very protective. Also I have no desire to endure a long space flight in any ship that’s liable to be developed in the next thousand years.

If all of that could be overcome, in this solar system, for some reason I’ve always been drawn to Neptune, except I gather it’s one of the least hospitable ones. Somehow still my sentimental favorite. Mercury seems too hot. Pluto might actually be quite interesting.

Kinda happy where I am. Let’s stop fucking it up. I like surfing.

I’d like to visit Earth and its pristine beaches, oceans, islands and jungles as it was about 20,000 years ago. Not a single discarded plastic bottle or McDonald’s burger box in sight.

Cait, or Ferasa.

“Earth’s the best place for love, I don’t know where it’s likely to go much better.”

Ferenginar or Kronos

Sedna, at its aphelion. Why? To see what I could see from that far out.

Saturn and Jupiter would be cool to orbit around and observe. Mars and Mercury would be interesting to walk on, maybe Pluto too.

Venus was quite nice before it stopped spinning and lost its magnetic field toward the end of WWII. Those clouds deflected the sun and kept it quite cool except for ocean vents—most life was in the ocean but the land was cool and misty with subtle rainbows in the misty “shadows”—the trees were of the same stock as our great pines. The people were somewhat Scandinavian. But even they coveted our earth, brimming with life. They called their planet Arium or Cytherea—which is what the Aryan and Scythean races are named after.

Mars and Murdek (or Tormantium, now the asteroid belt) had similar people prior to the war in which Murduk was decimated due to the rearrangement of the atom—destroying the planet and much of Mars as well. Or maybe it was the outer star re-entering our solar system.

But Venus existed in our time—a place of beauty and even more beautiful when seen from the Earth. You couldn’t see stars from its surface, though.

Wanted to say also— Mars and Murdek (sometimes called Phaeton, the former fifth planet, or Tiamet) was the Asgard of Norse mythology, When the planet was habitable, it was inhabited by Norse godlike supermen.

A servator or servant race, the familiar ‘Grey’ alien, is from there originally and brought knowledge (including the ability to make fire) to humankind. The Grey Alien species still walks among us, and maybe still survives on Mars. and are serpentlike and aquatic even though Mars hasn’t had oceans since prehistoric times. Today, Mars is an ugly ruin strewn with rocks. There are also bear-sized Orklike or troll-like creatures there which remain. I suspect red-haired Bigfoot creatures on the earth may be from there.

In its heyday, Mars had oceans and red clay mountains like the Appalachians. Its Nordic-looking ‘Sons of God’ visited the earth and took ‘Daughters of Men” as wives.

Mercury is not very interesting. Kinda looks like the moon but redder, like Mars.

I was going to say Mars but then I realized you said ANY planet – so obviously any planet that astronomers had dubbed Earth-like. Wanna see some aliens. Even if it’s little alien bacteria. Either going to give me superpowers or infect me with some parasite-zombie shit – I’m up for the chances, roll the dice baby!

To be a bit more down to earth (so to speak), Stephen Hawking is working on a very small space chip that would travel a fifth the speed of light and could reach reach Alpha Centauri in 25 years. It would be quite something just to look at the images sent back. Link

@LostInParadise “Space ship” or “space chip”?

It seems too small to call a space ship. The word play was intentional.

^^Cool

The catch to the “space chip” is that it has to somehow send data back across 4 light years. We have difficulty getting signals from Voyager 1, which is 19 light hours away. Need a 3.7 m dish on the spacecraft and an even bigger one on Earth.