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[Phoenix Wright]

I actually agree with Venus < Mercury, Mercury has a pretty cool history, and interesting concepts in regards to the contents of its craters, which I will be certain to discuss thoroughly when it gets to Mercury. Venus on the other hand, although its form of precipitation is among the most interesting in the solar system, the volcanoes destroy any chances of it doing something cool, save slowly boiling itself away and doing nothing except for spewing lava all over itself over and over again, and fart CO₂ into the atmosphere non-stop. Granted, it has a geological edge over Mercury, Mercury triumphs with more interesting elements present on its planet, Venus has a large abundance of the same elements. Although I am most definitely open to discussion about Venus even though it's not Venus's turn, I've never met anyone who has a passion for the planet Venus, and I'd love to hear their standpoint! I'd imagine a person who likes Venus would be a geologist no doubt.

All the planets have their own interesting histories. :P

It's PBS NOVA, so it's said very simply with little depth, but it's quite interesting (also, you were right about the geologist thing haha): http://www.pbs.org/w...ite-planet.html

Despite Chanover's argument, I still find Uranus pretty boring...but it's unique in its dullness.

Edited by Phoenix Wright, 30 July 2012 - 09:14 PM.

[Maji]

All the planets have their own interesting histories. :P

It's PBS NOVA, so it's said very simply with little depth, but it's quite interesting (also, you were right about the geologist thing haha): http://www.pbs.org/w...ite-planet.html

Despite Chanover's argument, I still find Uranus pretty boring...but it's unique in its dullness.

But Mercury has a more exciting history >__> (IMO)*
Oh hey, I haven't checked out that site, it was pretty cool to listen to professionals talk about their planets of study (I voted Neptune )
Although Uranus is not my favourite planet, nor my least favourite planet, I have to agree on what you said regarding Chanover, her last line in particular, "most fascinating places in our solar system" seems to be taking it a bit far. No doubt if a spacecraft were to fly by Uranus again, there might be minute changes to the weather, but nothing as fascinating as Neptune's weather.

I think another reason why most people do not like Uranus besides its bland appearance is the fact that it's the only gas giant in the solar system who does not have a moon with potential of life, or geological extravagance to it. This further makes it more boring, due to the fact that there's really nothing humans can do with the planet in the far future, save steal some gas from it, but Neptune is basically like Uranus, so I guess Uranus is semi-obsolete to a small extent?

*I'll try hard to cover Mercury and Venus as best as I can, so I don't accidentally give a bad bias towards Venus when it's its turn.