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Space is The Place
Volucrisus Aedrius
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Space, motherfuckers.
Motherfucking space.
I know you all want to go.
So lets talk about it.
Lets say in a few years time a conference of scientists decides to create a spaceship, one that is not affiliated with any nation. It is a spaceship that will travel to, say, Alpha Centauri or some near star system. Some star system with an Earth-like world. They were taking volunteers. It would require people who would live and die on that spaceship so their grandchildren or great grandchildren would have a future on some planet a hundred or two hundred or maybe half a millenia of years into the future.
Would you take it? Would you forsake a life on this planet so your progeny could have a future among the stars? So your descendants could colonize another world?
Would ya do it?
What would you take with you?
What would be your reservation?
What would be your hope for the future?
Tell me, SE++
Motherfucking space.
I know you all want to go.
So lets talk about it.
Lets say in a few years time a conference of scientists decides to create a spaceship, one that is not affiliated with any nation. It is a spaceship that will travel to, say, Alpha Centauri or some near star system. Some star system with an Earth-like world. They were taking volunteers. It would require people who would live and die on that spaceship so their grandchildren or great grandchildren would have a future on some planet a hundred or two hundred or maybe half a millenia of years into the future.
Would you take it? Would you forsake a life on this planet so your progeny could have a future among the stars? So your descendants could colonize another world?
Would ya do it?
What would you take with you?
What would be your reservation?
What would be your hope for the future?
Tell me, SE++
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now for 52 pages of people arguing about space program spending
even from people who live in countries with no actual space programs
unless snugly wrapped in an astronaut suit.
also the theme of my high school is space
Space Banditos?
what if by the time I had spent 40 years on that ship
what if by the time 20 years had passed they invented lightspeed or almost lightspeed
and i left earth and arrived at alpha centauri in 3 hours
and you guys still had 15 years to go
can't really go home
Yeah but you'll die long before you get there.
Its not really about you.
Space is getting larger and larger, supposedly
So eventually your head will explode by thinking about its size
On the other hand, inside that space shuttle the entirety of the job description is to survive and have sex.
Are the ladies on this shuttle hot? This is vital information.
And no I wouldn't go. I'm perfectly happy where I am
Exactly.
You think Mexico's just a vacation place? Bet you never heard of their space program. Yeah.
You could be the first to drill for oil to ship back to the USA.
Hell yeah let's do it brah
We're gonna be space-rich!
Imagine a huge spacecraft crewed and inhabited by hundreds of people - maybe so many as a thousand.
Powered by nuclear pulse propulsion.
An entire mini community aboard. A self sufficient colony with rocket engines strapped to it.
And we can buy space-beer! And space-hookers! And have a space-party!
are we talking near future?
can I take over this colony and become king of space?
over my dead body
oh wait
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RsWPFUzxgRU
you can be my number 2
you have a classy accent and can work an intercom, right?
Here on Earth, I'm just one of six (seven? eight?) billion folk, a world where everything has been done twice over and I will likely never achieve recognition for anything, if I manage to live a "happy" life at all
If I volunteer to be a part of this hypothetical expedition, best case scenario I boldly establish myself on the first wave of human colonists, really get my name in the history books. Worst case scenario, my name ends up on a monument somewhere and I become among the first corpses to leave the solar system
Earth... is burning.
will i need to be sober?
that's like columbus going around America to try and sail to the moon
you will need to be drunk
Variable Star - Robert Heinlein/Spider Robinson