# What is your favorite planet? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [September 1, 2003, 10:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-planet/198946 "2003-09-01T10:07:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![if\_you\_don\_t\_know\_i\_won\_t\_tell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/fbc32d/32.png) [@if\_you\_don\_t\_know\_i\_won\_t\_tell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/if_you_don_t_know_i_won_t_tell)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2003, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-planet/198946/21 "2003-09-02T00:38:54Z")
Neptune is beautiful. That’s just in this solar system, though. I can’t wait till we have images of ones in others! (ok, I admit it, I’m a geek) ---
**Author:** ![rostfrei](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7bcc69/32.png) [@rostfrei](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rostfrei)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2003, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-planet/198946/22 "2003-09-02T01:28:56Z")
Uranus. No particular reason. ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2003, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-planet/198946/23 "2003-09-02T01:56:09Z")
Jupiter, because its’ so pretty to look at in my telescope. And its moons rock. ---
**Author:** ![betenoir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/258eb7/32.png) [@betenoir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/betenoir)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2003, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-planet/198946/24 "2003-09-02T02:30:54Z")
Venus, planet of Love. Where everyone runs around naked and has sex all day. What? What do you mean they don’t? Well, then, Earth. But only in as far as one get’s to run around naked and have sex all day. (And someone should speak up for Mars, which despite it’s warlike nature, is looking very pretty right now :)) ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2003, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-planet/198946/25 "2003-09-02T02:46:49Z")
_Exodor_- Even Pluto?!?! _Mork_- Naaah! Never go to Pluto… It is a Mickey Mouse Planet!!!” -From Mork & Mindy In addition, we should not limit ourselves: speaking outside the Sun, we have found almost 100 more planets! [http://www.extrasolar.net/mainframes.html](http://www.extrasolar.net/mainframes.html) So much to choose… ---
**Author:** ![stolichnaya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bcef8e/32.png) [@stolichnaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stolichnaya)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2003, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-planet/198946/26 "2003-09-02T03:21:47Z")
Mine’s the sun. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2003, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-planet/198946/27 "2003-09-02T03:30:29Z")
Altair-4 ---
**Author:** ![TheFunkySpaceCowboy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a9a28c/32.png) [@TheFunkySpaceCowboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheFunkySpaceCowboy)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2003, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-planet/198946/28 "2003-09-02T04:08:51Z")
Betelgeuse! (well actually I’m quite fond a small planet in the vicinity) Though Earth is moslty harmless, which ain’t so bad either 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Shana](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3bc359/32.png) [@Shana](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shana)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2003, 6:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-planet/198946/29 "2003-09-02T06:04:14Z")
I like Saturn…those rings are purty. ---
**Author:** ![Horseflesh](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/horseflesh/32/7502_2.png) [@Horseflesh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horseflesh)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2003, 6:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-planet/198946/30 "2003-09-02T06:31:10Z")
Off the top of my head: Trantor Remulak Lalonde Well World That world in Star Trek that had the green dancer ---
**Author:** ![Mudshark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f04885/32.png) [@Mudshark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mudshark)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2003, 6:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-planet/198946/31 "2003-09-02T06:41:52Z")
Oh yeah, fictional planets. I’d have to say Alderaan or Vulcan. ---
**Author:** ![vibrotronica](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/a9a28c/32.png) [@vibrotronica](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vibrotronica)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2003, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-planet/198946/32 "2003-09-02T19:13:50Z")
I remember watching the Voyager 2 encounter with Saturn on TV back in the day, and ever since then it has been my favorite planet. The Cassini mission has given me a reason to live until 2005. My favorite fictional planet is probably Bespin, because all inhabitants get a lifetime supply of Colt 45 malt liquor! ---
**Author:** ![DaToad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@DaToad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DaToad)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2003, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-planet/198946/33 "2003-09-02T19:13:58Z")
That planet orbiting the star, Emme Ya. I want to meet those fish people. Or maybe Ringworld. ---
**Author:** ![fortytwo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f9ae1b/32.png) [@fortytwo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fortytwo)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2003, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-planet/198946/34 "2003-09-02T20:32:40Z")
Iszm. It’s a Jack Vance original. ---
**Author:** ![criminalcatalog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e68b1a/32.png) [@criminalcatalog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/criminalcatalog)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2003, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-planet/198946/35 "2003-09-02T20:41:07Z")
Coruscant = urban enema (in a good way) ---
**Author:** ![UrbanChic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/9dc877/32.png) [@UrbanChic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UrbanChic)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2003, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-planet/198946/36 "2003-09-02T22:13:28Z")
Saturn, no contest. If I ever have a band, I’m going to name it Cassini Division. Plus, Saturn was such a funny Plasma Sword character. ---
**Author:** ![Hometownboy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/5e9695/32.png) [@Hometownboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hometownboy)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2003, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-planet/198946/37 "2003-09-03T04:15:00Z")
Darkover Amber Garth, from Brin’s Uplift War [aside] bravo for **Vetch** for bringing up Vance’s classic "The Houses of Iszm. Vance had many fascinating worlds and an agile, baroque mind. Time for a major Vance revival! [/aside] ---
**Author:** ![Already\_in\_Use](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a9adbd/32.png) [@Already\_in\_Use](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Already_in_Use)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2003, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-planet/198946/38 "2003-09-03T04:34:54Z")
I would like to sniff the gases of Uranus. ---
**Author:** ![Johanna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johanna/32/8318_2.png) [@Johanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johanna)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2003, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-planet/198946/39 "2003-09-03T04:36:21Z")
Neptune for me. My rising planet. ---
**Author:** ![lokij](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/5e9695/32.png) [@lokij](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lokij)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2003, 5:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-planet/198946/40 "2003-09-03T05:33:12Z")
Jupiter, so beautiful and violent with it’s centuries old storms. Practically a tiny solar system of it’s own and one of the more likely spots for life elsewhere in the solar sytem. “All these worlds are yours except for Europa. Attempt no landing there.” :\> [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-planet/198946.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-planet/198946.md?page=3)