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| − | | Pluto, Moon, Mercury || Night || | + | | Pluto, Moon, Mercury || Night || Mt. Everest at night |
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| − | | Moon || Day || | + | | Moon || Day || Mt. Everest at noon under a tanning lamp |
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| − | | Mercury || Day || | + | | Mercury || Day || A lava flow at a volcano at noon |
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| − | | Venus || || | + | | Venus || || A heat-shrink wetsuit in a blast furnace |
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| − | | Mars || || | + | | Mars || || Mt. Everest at sunset |
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| − | | Titan || || | + | | Titan || || Waist-deep in an outgassing Siberian swamp |
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| − | | Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune || || | + | | Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune || || Jumping from a high-altitude baloon over an Antarctic Ocean winter storm |
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Revision as of 07:20, 28 October 2016
| Interplanetary Experience |
 Title text: But instead of hitting the ocean, you should land in an overheating hot tub on a sinking cruise ship, sending it crashing through the floor into the burning engine room as the ship goes under. |
Explanation
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This explanation may be incomplete or incorrect: Please write an introduction to the individual places explanation. If you can address this issue, please edit the page! Thanks. |
Table of planets and like Earth places
| Planet(s) | Day/Night | Place on Earth | Explanation |
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| Pluto, Moon, Mercury | Night | Mt. Everest at night | |
| Moon | Day | Mt. Everest at noon under a tanning lamp | |
| Mercury | Day | A lava flow at a volcano at noon | |
| Venus | A heat-shrink wetsuit in a blast furnace | ||
| Mars | Mt. Everest at sunset | ||
| Titan | Waist-deep in an outgassing Siberian swamp | ||
| Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune | Jumping from a high-altitude baloon over an Antarctic Ocean winter storm |
Transcript
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This transcript is incomplete. Please help editing it! Thanks. |
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The Mars at sunset might also be reference to "alpenglow." A simple Google of "alpenglow" should suffice as explanation 172.68.54.126 (talk) (please sign your comments with ~~~~)
The explanation starts out saying that this list includes all the other planets in our system as well as a couple moons, however uranus and saturn are clearly left off the list. 108.162.238.37 15:16, 28 October 2016 (UTC)
- Retracted, I did not understand the hypen in the last line. 172.68.78.125 16:18, 28 October 2016 (UTC)
Actually, the upper atmosphere of Venus has Earthlike temperature and Earthlike pressure - it is, indeed, pretty much the only planetary location in the Solar System safer enough than deep space to be worth the gravity well (you need a balloon to keep you aloft, oxygenated air, and protection from the sulfuric acid, but Earth air is a lifting gas on Venus so the first two solve each other). So "do not go to Venus" and "nowhere is even close to survivable except Earth" aren't quite true. The surface of Venus is absurdly inhospitable even to machines, but one shouldn't write off the whole planet so quickly. Magic9mushroom (talk) 04:02, 29 October 2016 (UTC)
- I definitely think the part about Venus atmosphere is not only hot and dense, but also highly corrosive is worth mentioning. Sulfuric acid, phosphoric acid ... -- Hkmaly (talk) 17:53, 29 October 2016 (UTC)
This could also be a reference to the short movie Wanderers by Erik Wernquist and narrated by Carl Sagan. In the movie we can see imaginary scenes where humans are trekking the solar system for personal exploration. /LordSillion -
https://vimeo.com/108650530
162.158.134.178 04:21, 11 January 2017 (UTC)
Someone who is good at this kind of things should also change the transcript to get rid of the table. --Lupo (talk) 12:16, 18 January 2019 (UTC)
