It's
easy to look out into the night sky and imagine the wonders and possibilities
that await us among the stars. Tons of science fiction movies have been made
about venturing into the cosmos, and as many of those movies show, space isn't
exactly hospitable. In fact, our solar system is essentially a collection of
giant death traps.
Which is too bad, because,
like, you really want to go to Jupiter, right? Wouldn't that be cool? But
pretty much everywhere that isn't Earth will destroy you; the deadliest places
in the solar system are also the coolest.
In addition to lava-spewing
volcanoes, ice volcanoes, and lakes of noxious gas, some planets have storms so
strong they'll rip the flesh off your bones. The good news about all these
places is they'd kill you really quickly. So, if you're in a morbid and cosmic
mood, check out our list of the scariest, worst places to die in the solar
system below.
Eviscerated by Flying Ice
Shards on Neptune
Eviscerated by Flying Ice
Shar... is listed (or ranked) 1 on the list Places in the Solar System Where
Your Death Would Be Most Horrific.
Neptune is so far from the
sun - about 2.8 billion miles - it takes it 165 years to make a single pass
around the star. An ice giant, the mammoth planet's atmosphere contains
swirling water and shards of ice. Neptune also has wind gusts reaching speeds
of 700 miles per hour. At that speed, the wind itself would flay you. The ice
in the atmosphere is a nasty little bonus weapon.
Imploded and Electrocuted
Amidst Jupiter's 300-year-old Storms
If you were sucked into
Jupiter's gravity, you'd be crushed by the most awesome force of pressure in the solar system. Scientists believe the
liquid hydrogen ocean inside Jupiter is under so much pressure that electrons
are squeezed off hydrogen atoms, making the liquid electrified. The atmosphere
of Jupiter is also home to some tremendous storms, including the Great Red
Spot, which has been raging for more than 300 years, is twice the size
of Earth, and has winds traveling at about 270 miles per hour.
When you head to Jupiter,
expect to implode, and be obliterated by merciless storms or zapped in an
electrified lake.
Annihilated by the Molten
Seas and Abusive Radtion of a Pizza Moon
Io, one of Jupiter's moons,
is the most vocanically active body in the solar system. What does that mean?
Well, it's covered in molten lava, and enormous volcanoes are known to spew
jets of searing magma nearly 200 miles high. There's so much lava, in fact,
that most of the Io's surface is liquid. It's basically hell floating in
space. In addition to the volcanic hellscape, Io boasts lakes of molten
sulfur, intense radiation, and massive electric currents. Which makes it sound like a nuclear bomb made out of
lava. Although NASA claims the planet looks like a pizza.
Ripped to Shreds by the
Calamitous Winds of a Gas Giant
Saturn sure is beautiful.
The rings, the swirling colors, the light breeze. Yes, as it turns out, winds
on Saturn gust at about 1,118 miles per hour. So, if you're scared of being
crushed to death by the pressure within this gas giant, don't worry. You'll
be ripped to shreds by the wind before you implode.
Crushed, Cremated, and
Suffocated on Lovely Venus
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Venus's thick, tempestuous
atmosphere has turned the planet into a scorched wasteland, trapping extreme heat, pressure, and toxic gas. Surface
temperatures exceed 880 degrees Fahrenheit, hot enough to melt lead, and the
air pressure on Venus is 90 times that of Earth. There are also lava plains. So. Venus would
crush, suffocate, and incinerate you simultaneously, in probably less than 10
seconds. And that's assuming the sulfuric acid in the atmosphere doesn't
destroy you before you get to the planet's surface.
Turned into a Popsicle on
the Coldest Moon in the Solar System
Neptune got a little greedy
in the satellite sweepstakes, and ended up with 13 moons. One of these moons,
Triton, is among the coldest places in the solar system, with surface
temperatures of around -391 degrees Fahrenheit.
For comparison's sake, 0
degrees Kelvin, the coldest possible temperature, at which atoms stop
moving, is about -460 degrees Fahrenheit.
Triton is also one of
four volcanically active bodes in the solar system; it's pockmarked with cryovolcanoes,
or, volcanoes that spew ice and ammonia. If Io is hell, Triton is its frozen
equivalent. You'd freeze immediately, and you might get eviscerated by ice
flying from a cryovolcano.
Frozen and Fried on a Space
Potato
Photo: Freebase/Public domain |
Mercury
has almost no atmosphere, meaning you'd suffocate on
the vacuum-like planet . However, good news - you wouldn't live that long,
thanks to the extreme temperatures. The side of Mercury facing the sun reaches
800 degrees Fahrenheit, while the side facing away from the sun gets
pretty damn cold. As in, -290 degrees Fahrenheit. Basically Mercury treats your
body like a fast food restaurant treats food - freeze it then fry it. Which is
ironic, since Mercury kind of looks like a potato.
Minced in Searing Solar
Winds En Route to the Heliosphere
Photo: NASAblueshift/flickr/CC-BY 2.0 |
A magnetic bubble called the
Heliosphere surrounds the solar system, and contains the cosmic bodies and
solar winds within. To get there, you need to pass through something called Termination
Shock, which is the point at which solar wind blowing out from the sun
encounters astral wind, and abruptly slows down. Previous to reaching the
Termination Shock, solar winds travel at about 1,500,000 miles per hour. If you make it through
winds strong enough to tear apart the primordial matter from which you formed,
you'll suffocate and freeze in the nothingness of the Helisophere.
How You're Actually Going to
Die on Earth
In nearly every case,
horrible deaths throughout the solar system occur in a matter of seconds. Not
so on Earth. On your home planet, you have the luxury of dying slowly thanks
to disease, torture, poisoned water, black lung, poverty, and countless other things. Even quick deaths on
Earth, from beheading to elephant trampling, take a lot longer and are far more
painful than imploding in a matter of seconds on Venus or freezing in an
instant on Pluto.
what if death is not the end after all, infact i would go as far as to suggest there's no such
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