by eric_b » Tue 16 Jan 2007, 00:30:42
Anything huh?
First I'd need to steal some sort of ET corvette. Something small and very fast. It would need to have some sort of inertial damping so the extreme accelerations it was capable of wouldn't kill me.
First I'd want to see the Earth from space, LEO (low earth orbit). I'd spend some time, hours, days perhaps, looking at this globe from space.
Then I'd want to visit the other planets in this solar system. Venus and Mercury are boring so I'd skip them, but Mars, Jupiter (especially), Saturn and Uranus would be awesome. Of course my Corvette would be capable of quickly reaching relativistic speeds (no fake star trek warp drive), so it would only take me a few minutes to hours to reach these other globes. Nothing slow and pathetic like the probes we've sent to these planets thus far, which have taken years to reach them.
For some reason Jupiter fascinates me. I've seen it many times, both naked eye and through the eyepiece. Immense. I'd like to be able to skim the outer reaches of its enormous atmosphere as well as see it's awesome auroral displays (dark side, of course). I'd need the 'Vettes inertial damping at this point as I don't think I could handle 10 g's otherwise (jupiters gravity).
These are my modest desires in this department.
Nothing much on the surface of this hard and heavy world that I really want to see anymore.. it's a matter of perspective that I crave.