@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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in Clarke's novel 2010 , there's a Chinese exploration ship which arrives at the Jupiter system before the Soviet ship, and they land on Europa's icy surface, and proceed to investigate the ocean beneath the ice.
Then, a huge, strange, alien life form comes up from the deep, attracted by all the lights, smashes through ice, and starts freezing to death and dying in the near vacuum.
@llewelly@luigirenna@futurebird Oh I just read 2010 again a few months ago. It was kind of painful - so stilted, full of ancient prejudices. I was glad to finish the story and stop thinking about it. Amazing how often rereading the old stuff forces me to confront things I'd ignored in the past.