h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

So, here we are on our mission to swim to Jupiter, on board the Swimming Pool ship piloted by Joanna, which has a Yellow Submarine in it's depths.
THIS is the Final Forum!
We'll arrive at Jupiter by the end of this forum, as we have sailed past both Mars and the Asteroid belt. So, swim on to the king of planets!

*continues to fly ship*

}Wait, I thought we already HAD landed...{

Yeh, don't we get a chance to explore. Perhaps swim through the Great Red Spot, or stop at the IO T-Shirt stall (I haven't acquired this years yet), or maybe even get an ice on Europa?

I always said we'd arrive at the end of 5 - and someone started a countdown at the end of the last one, but don't blame me....

Okay, when we get there we can stop swimming and go sight-seeing. As long as we go somewhere to dry off first - I'm as wrinkled as a prune.

Mew!

Dang! Who let the rules of physics get in the way of a good countdown?

Obviously none of us. So, we've got about another 200 posts before we arrive at Jupiter and Joanna decides what she's gonna do with this swimming pool of ours... So, we may as well start swimming.

umm... 192?

so where are we now? Jupiter? or a planet nearby???

We're currently very, very close to Jupiter - about to get inside her gravity's sphere of influence.

}It doesn't necessarily have to be 200 posts! I made that one up!{

Hang about. We is flying head on towards Jupiter. We have artificial gravity (I assume) keeping the water in the pool. If we enter the gravity field of Jupiter, won't all the water end up at one end of the room. It will soak all the loungers and I'll end up having to try and swin through palm fronds!

Last time I checked the water was glued onto the bottom of the pool, but yes, we do have a little gravity. And yes, everything'll probably get soaked. But that's what we're in a swimming pool heading for Jupiter for!

And yes, it doesn't have to be 200 posts exactly, but that's a nice number. But sometime in this thread, we'll arrive at Jupiter - and then we'll have to decide what to do next.

We could have a test to see if, were we to take the Giant Red Spot to Australia, would it go the other way round

}That's silly.{

Very silly....
*swims a bit more...*

And swimming to Jupiter is?

Swimming to Jupiter is an exciting adventure!

filled with great danger!

But no silliness? Okay then I'll put the Whippet back then.