futurebird , (edited )
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Which celestial body is the most creepy?

jeffc ,
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@futurebird

Jupiter.

The Grand Tack Hypothesis is downright ominous. Teaming up with another gas giant to bully the other planets? Yeah, that.

When that comet hit it, it didn't even blink. How many planets do you think it's swallowed?

I mean, have you listened to its radio signals? And what powers those crazy winds and storms?

Jupiter's always looming.

Don't think for a moment it isn't planning something.

floatybirb ,
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@futurebird Sagitarius A* because Black Holes are ominous.

there might be an rogue planet that is yet more ominous, but I don't know enough rogue planets to name whichever one is the creepiest.

cinebox ,
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stripey ,
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@futurebird our absolutely freak-show gargantuan only natural satellite probably scares away aliens. There's your Fermi Paradox response right there

beecycling ,
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@futurebird I'm not saying Saturn as such is creepy, but that weird hexagon thing at its north pole is creepy. And the way we keep finding more and more moons around it is creepy. Almost like something is putting them there when we're not looking.

futurebird OP ,
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@beecycling

So many kids to eat, so little time.

mansr ,
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@futurebird The moon. Always hiding something.

juandesant ,
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@futurebird Io for its volcanism and awesome view of Jupiter.

ReverendMoose ,
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@futurebird The Moon, are we technically a binary planet / dwarf planet system; would intelligent life even be possible without the moon's influence; why is the moon exactly the right size for a full solar eclipse; is the moon really an artificial construction (probably not but you can't completely rule it out).

ReverendMoose ,
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@futurebird runner up is Planet X, gravitational influences indicate it should be there, lurking in the Kuiper Belt. They been doing serious science to try and find it pretty much my entire life, it's never where they look for it. One semi-fringe but plausible explanation is it's a primordial black hole.

lienrag ,

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Or the egg of a giant space ant, waiting to hatch...

(but I guess that seismography has ruled this out now)

@futurebird

ReverendMoose ,
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@lienrag @futurebird I remember a collection of dragon based Sci Fi short stories I read as a preteen and my favorite was this giant momma dragon shows up, looks for an egg where Vulcan should be, then turns to Mercury which hatches into a baby dragon. I think the story ended there, but the implications were clear. I've never been able to figure out the name of the collection or story though.

posiputt ,
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@futurebird I'd say earth. It has ants.

xges ,
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@futurebird the sun

notsoloud ,
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@futurebird
Well duh the horsehead nebula.

Really sends a message.

notsoloud ,
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@futurebird
Betelgeuse

justafrog ,
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@futurebird The next giant meteor which will hit Earth.

Nobody knows which one.

Nobody knows when it'll hit.

But it will, eventually.

Tattie ,

@futurebird Charon

alchemistsstudio ,
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@futurebird starlink space junk

qkslvrwolf ,
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@futurebird none of them?

catselbow ,
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@futurebird

Yuggoth.

nazokiyoubinbou ,
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@futurebird I'm going to go with the planet that is so caustic that even diamond-tipped stuff isn't safe: Venus.

campbell ,
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@futurebird moon’s haunted

s31bz ,
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@futurebird
Venus, my favorite planet

soaproot ,
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@futurebird I'm voting for Io. It is all those volcanoes (and colors, which I think are vivid even if you aren't looking at an enhanced color image, as I understand it).

Christopher ,
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@futurebird

It's a tie between Mars and Saturn. Especially when it comes from Gustav Holst. :blobcatgiggle:

christopherbrown ,
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@futurebird Venus is the creepiest for me. A storm of dense split pea soup.

biloti ,
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@futurebird Rama.

brektyme ,
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@futurebird Venus, because it's scary how close it is to Earth in just about every way, but completely uninhabitable and generally terrifying. And the result of runaway greenhouse gases.

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