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Space terrifies me. The gas giants are especially fucking terrifying. Like if I woke up in the far future, on a ship/artificial satellite (space station, whatever) orbiting close to Jupiter or Saturn I would freak the fuck out—just thinking about this completely imaginary scenario I have no frame of reference for is freaking me out.
I think Uranus—shut up shut up shut the fuck up—is kinda cool though. I had a dream once that I was in orbit around it—in a far future where there was some colonization/industrial shit going on (because there were some points of light scattered across the dark side). I still ain’t going up there though. I’m dying on this mote of dust.
The Sun doesn’t freak me out as much. Sunshine was a cool movie.
There is a great book called The Algebraist that takes place in a gas giant. The scale is unfathomable. Highly recommend it, or the audiobook.
The author Iain M Banks was a cool dude. Sadly we lost him in 2014.
He fell into a gas giant.
He'd have preferred that to the pancreatic cancer that got him.
I'll send you a copy of the book if you fancy it.
Honestly it doesn’t sound like my cup of tea. I’m more into hard sci-fi, and also I don’t know how to read.
It is hard sci-fi. No FTL here. Granted it is grand in scale, but I don't think that should count against it.