If you could leave Earth, would you?
What if you had a chance to leave everything behind and travel among the stars in a space ark or ship? Would you leave it all? Not knowing what laid ahead or if you would even see your family again? Only people in your immediate family would be allowed to go with you; your spouse & kids.
You would have to live with a select few for god knows how many years on a ship with no more than 50 or so square acres of living space that you would need to share with other people, plants for food and processing plants. You would have to work as part of the whole hive. Your final destination will most likely not be achieved in your lifetime. (But you would go down in the history books. ) The purpose of this voyage would be to find a planet suitable for humans to terraform and live on.
Would you?
You would have to live with a select few for god knows how many years on a ship with no more than 50 or so square acres of living space that you would need to share with other people, plants for food and processing plants. You would have to work as part of the whole hive. Your final destination will most likely not be achieved in your lifetime. (But you would go down in the history books. ) The purpose of this voyage would be to find a planet suitable for humans to terraform and live on.
Would you?
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I would.
<strong>What if you had a chance to leave everything behind and travel among the stars in a space ark or ship? Would you leave it all? Not knowing what laid ahead or if you would even see your family again? Only people in your immediate family would be allowed to go with you; your spouse & kids.
You would have to live with a select few for god knows how many years on a ship with no more than 50 or so square acres of living space that you would need to share with other people, plants for food and processing plants. You would have to work as part of the whole hive. Your final destination will most likely not be achieved in your lifetime. (But you would go down in the history books. ) The purpose of this voyage would be to find a planet suitable for humans to terraform and live on.
Would you?</strong><hr></blockquote>
Sign me up--as long as religion is left on earth.
Yeah I've got my priorites straight
As far as companionship, I would require that I be allowed to bring at least two women along with me so I always had one available for inter-stellar booty calls during those idle times between planets.
Probably can't bring my car either, huh?
No, thanks. But bring me back a cool souvenir, not just one of those, "My buddy went to the Rigel Nebula, and all I got..." t-shirts.
then again, couldn't leave the kids even then...sadly, i guess not.....
Heavy allusions here. . . .
Hell yeah. In space no one can hear you scream*.
*for joy.
return trip or not never clear, but outbound yep.
the follow up question that then sticks is where?
<a href="http://www.obspm.fr/encycl/encycl.html" target="_blank">Extrasolar Planets Encyclopedia</a> now over 100 known planets... [[great java-based star + planet finder maps for northern or southern hemisphere too from
<a href="http://www.generation.net/~mariob/astro/exoplan/intro-e.htm" target="_blank">Sky Maps of Extrasolar Planets</a>]]
<< chunky and slow renderings of known planetary systems ( from <a href="http://www.space.com" target="_blank">www.space.com</a> ) removed... >>
of course, the Roddenberry fans among us will note that Epsilon Eridani is on the list of astronomically confirmed planetary systems. According to Gene (long before the planetary searchers started looking), the homeworld of the Vulcans was around a minor star in Eridani.
pencil me in for the extra legroom and window seat
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If we cant leave to find another planet, Why don't we bring another planet here?
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