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If money was no object, where would you be booking your next holiday?

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  • Europa, Jupiter's moon.

    • Not Titan? I think the rings would be worth seeing.

      • Titan is a terrible place to view Saturn's rings from; first of all the moon's orbit is pretty much coplanar with the ring disc so you're looking at something hilariously thin end-on. Second, thick opaque clouds. On the upside, Titan's gravity is so low and the air is so thick given an Icarus suit you could fly like a bird. Or pedal power a Cessna Skyhawk.

        You'd probably get a good look at the rings on your way in though.

        • Well, I'd also accept another moon out of the elliptic, but while Jupiter would be awesome, Saturn still has my heart for the next few hundred thousand years.

          Titan's also a proper planet; if it were orbiting the sun, it would be classified as such, giving it all of those great features you mentioned. But, it's posed as a vacation, not a place to live, so maybe one of the other moons with a better view of the rings.

          • You know what? Money's no object, so why don't we arrange a grand tour? We'll do Europa, maybe stop at Ganymede and Callisto (I don't think Io is a very pleasant destination spot), then head out to Saturn and check out Titan and Enceladus, head out to Uranus for a stop at Miranda, and then finish up at Neptune to spend some time on Triton.

            • Fellow human being, you are awesome. Even with the expectedly years-long journey (money may be no object, but I assume we still have to work with current tech and obey the laws of physics) I'm down. Money being no object, let's bring a hundred of our favorite people and decrease the odds of going stir-crazy.

              I'm thinking, like, a really big Discovery I.

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