# Let's make Earth the #1 Planet **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 26, 2020, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-earth-the-1-planet/919032 "2020-08-26T03:54:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 10
**Author:** ![markn\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@markn\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/markn_1)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2025, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-earth-the-1-planet/919032/181 "2025-03-20T02:12:32Z")
Nope, Americans: [STS-47 - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STS-47) But there was an earlier Soviet mission in 1982 in which a woman and two men spent a week in space in the Salyut space station. There is speculation that the first sex in space may have happened on that mission. Both NASA and the Russians deny that any sex occurred on any of their space missions. ---
**Author:** ![griffin1977](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/977dab/32.png) [@griffin1977](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/griffin1977)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2025, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-earth-the-1-planet/919032/182 "2025-03-20T04:25:03Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > I thought the scientific name is Sol III. Is it? I’ve always assumed that terminology came from science fiction rather than science as IRL astronomy has not had to deal with the issue of naming multiple planets around stars other than Sol (if that is in fact the scientific name for the star we orbit and not just the term used in sci-fi?) ---
**Author:** ![Hatchie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hatchie/32/3983_2.png) [@Hatchie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hatchie)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2025, 8:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-earth-the-1-planet/919032/183 "2025-03-20T08:37:33Z")
> [@markn\_1](#): > > Both NASA and the Russians deny that any sex occurred on any of their space missions. Ha ha! I’d like to have seen that press conference! “By the way, there was never sex in space!” “But sir, nobody asked about it.” “Right, and nobody **should** ask about it because it could Never Happen!” Putin knows it did. Oh and you Science Fiction guys, you’re like five years late to the party. ---
**Author:** ![Loggins](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/74df32/32.png) [@Loggins](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loggins)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2025, 9:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-earth-the-1-planet/919032/184 "2025-03-20T09:09:23Z")
The Earth IS the perfect planet. It breeds life, no matter if humans live or die. The globe doesnt really care. “Life..finds a way” (cite; Ian Malcolm) ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2025, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-earth-the-1-planet/919032/185 "2025-03-20T13:29:46Z")
> [@Hatchie](#): > > adults in a space the size of a Plaze suite (maybe larger, I didn’t remember to bring my tape measure!) Just the two of them. There were about seven people on the ISS the entire time the couple you’re speaking of was there. ---
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2025, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-earth-the-1-planet/919032/186 "2025-03-20T14:35:33Z")
> [@Hatchie](#): > > For a start, it is not one of the Gas Giants like Jupiter, on which there’s no place to stand Coincidentally, I was watching YouTube clips last night, and I watched a simulation video of an imaginary indestructible probe that descends down into Jupiter’s atmosphere. First you enter an outer atmosphere of fluffy white ammonia clouds. Then an inner atmosphere of brown hydrogen sulfide clouds. Next you enter an outer core of liquid hydrogen at unimaginable pressures and temperatures hotter than the surface of the Sun. Finally, you do reach a solid inner core made up of carbons, metals and other Earth-like stuff. So, you _ **could** _ stand on Jupiter! You’d just need one heck of a good spacesuit. ---
**Author:** ![Jasmine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jasmine/32/2964_2.png) [@Jasmine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jasmine)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2025, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-earth-the-1-planet/919032/187 "2025-03-20T14:40:39Z")
> [@Hatchie](#): > > One thing we could try is to drill a lot of holes in the sea bed and let the cold water rush in and douse all that heat, Mantle, Magma, all of it! Douse all the heat and, eventually, the core will stop spinning. When that happens, the earth loses its magnetic field that protects us from lethal radiation. Then, it’s hasta la vista, baby. ---
**Author:** ![Hatchie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hatchie/32/3983_2.png) [@Hatchie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hatchie)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2025, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-earth-the-1-planet/919032/188 "2025-03-20T15:05:08Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > There were about seven people on the ISS the entire time the couple you’re speaking of was there. Wait, are we talking about Butch and Suki here? Yeah, seven people in a Space Lab would be like Grand Central Station. Not very conducive to a shipboard romance! Still, people have a way of finding little corners where the foot traffic is really sparse. Mind you, if the same pair of would-be paramours kept disappearing for extended encounters, the rest of the crew would figure it out. Might still be worth it. I mean, it’s sex in zero-G, wouldn’t you want to take that for a test drive, given the chance? Oh, one more thing. Does NASA supply Space Condoms? Because the last thing you want is little blobs of Yuck floating around the cabin. Okay, that’s the last I’m going to say about that! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-earth-the-1-planet/919032.md?page=9)