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Space Travel (Interstellar question)

Would you go into space?

  • Fuck yes!

    Votes: 36 73.5%

  • Hell No.

    Votes: 13 26.5%
  • Total voters
    49
mean dad said:
Would I regret my decision in fifteen years, when I'm the only living thing within a million miles?
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You don't have to be -- and that's where the previously mentioned alternate view of this interstellar travel comes in:

We are already on a spacecraft travelling through interstellar space, and that spacecraft is Earth. Our solar system is located about halfway from the centre of our Milky Way galaxy, and rotates around the centre once every 250 million years (this is known as a Galactic year). At the same time, it is off the Milky Way plane, and it oscillates up and down about 3 times in one galactic year.

On top of the above, our Milky Way galaxy is moving relative to our Local Group of galaxies (it is actually on a collision course with the Andromeda galaxy), and our Local Group of galaxies is moving within our Virgo Supercluster.

The outcome of all this is that we are on a grand voyage through interstellar and intergalactic space, so just wait a few hundred thousand years and you will see the night sky changing -- after all, that is the amount of time you would have to wait in a tin can spacecraft to see anything interesting anyway, and by staying on earth you get to enjoy all other activities too, like biking.
 
on my beloved grandmother lucy's side, my ancestors were vikings, so yeah - that part of me would hurl myself into oblivion, no questions asked. :laughing
 
I personally believe that getting off this little muddy rock and out there is the only way we survive as a species.
Oddly enough, that's important to me. While I doubt I'll see that sort of undertaking in my life time (and further doubt I'd be physically capable of doing it) if I was? I'd do it in a heartbeat.
Our only real future is out there.. eventually.
 
Has the Virgin Galactic crash changed anyones opinion? Not me.... I'd go. Sheeeeet, if I had 250K to spare, I'd go on the first flight.
 
I could surely live on something like the Holodeck leaving everything behind :laughing But then, maybe I'm already on it, and forgot the password and where the door was.
 
Rel said:
Has the Virgin Galactic crash changed anyones opinion? Not me.... I'd go. Sheeeeet, if I had 250K to spare, I'd go on the first flight.
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You'd actually spend 250K on 6 min of weightlessness, seriously?
You know its kind of embarrassing for Virgin Galactic to mention their over priced plane ride in the same sentence as space travel.

You have to start somewhere, too bad for their disaster.
I'm as curious as the next guy for whats out there but I think we get more bang for our buck by sending out probes with measuring devices. Sending humans just makes it a side show.
 
The zero-g flights cost about $5k/person and you get 6 or 7 blocks of 20secs of weightlessness.
 
Where we are living right now is really.. "the garden of Eden"...
 
sandyxb said:
The zero-g flights cost about $5k/person and you get 6 or 7 blocks of 20secs of weightlessness.
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5k for that, I bet they have a psychologist on staff, to deal with the severe cases of buyers remorse.
You know who doesn't have psychologists on staff? The Bunny Ranch, thats who, imagine what 5K could get you.
 
Blankpage said:
5k for that, I bet they have a psychologist on staff, to deal with the severe cases of buyers remorse.
You know who doesn't have psychologists on staff? The Bunny Ranch, thats who, imagine what 5K could get you.
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In your case, probably a whole lot less than 6 mins :twofinger
 
I think about what travel used to be like before the steamship.

Months on a ship. No guarantee you will make it, and no help either. No way to predict weather.

But things must have been pretty crappy back home to make the journey to someplace new.

Maybe in 50 years, things will be bad here and off we go...
 
sanjuro said:
I think about what travel used to be like before the steamship.

Months on a ship. No guarantee you will make it, and no help either. No way to predict weather.

But things must have been pretty crappy back home to make the journey to someplace new.

Maybe in 50 years, things will be bad here and off we go...
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Quite different. Anywhere early explorers pointed that steamship they were going to encounter other humans
There isn't another world fit for human habitation this side of the kessel run.
50 years from now Antarctica will still be off limits
 
I'd much rather send a lot...a whole lot of other people to another planet to better mankind. Kim and Kanye, anyone that spent more than five minutes watching Honey Boo Boo, amped up lifted truck driving bros, OJ Simpson, the jurors and judge who let him walk, and....what's the character limit on these posts....uhhhh yeah, a lot of people.
 
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