Would You Go Into Space?

[Lost Cause]

Say NASA called you tomorrow, and asked you to go on the next shuttle mission. Would you leave all you love here to go and watch the 40 minute sunrise/sunsets, the electrical "sprites" surging out of the atmosphere, the stars and moon without the hazy atmosphere of earth, the lights of all the cities of earth, to float like a feather, to conduct experiments that benefit the whole of humanity......with the knowledge you may die in the endeavor?

 

[plasticman33]

In a minute!

 

[Mad_Jack_Rabbit]

In a nano second (gotta beat placticman to the front of the queue)

 

[WynEternal]

Yes

 

[Hillbilly_Honey]

No Fucking Way.

 

[bluespoke]

Get ramps on that shuttle and I'm there!

 

[plasticman33]

No Fucking Way.

Chicken!

 

[Mountain Man]

They wouldn't have to ask me twice...


Let's go...

 

[sigh]

Yes.

I might die on the highway too, but that doesn't mean I'll never go visit my mom again.

 

[Hillbilly_Honey]

Chicken!

You bet your sweet ass I'm a chicken. I have a hard time getting on an airplane!

 

[plasticman33]

You bet your sweet ass I'm a chicken. I have a hard time getting on an airplane!

Now without airplanes I wouldn't be coming to Louisville!

 

[brokenbrainwave]

HELL NO


I am sooooo afraid of heights. Really I am. I cant sit in a bleacher even without freaking out. Anything over 7 foot and, ughh I wanna puke thinking about it.


Plus it means I dont have to clean the gutters...

 

[woodgie2]

In Planck's time

(there, beat you all...)

Seriously, ever since I was a small kid I've said I want to be a colonist on Mars.

I'm 30, I still hope...

 

[Kuntmode]

n/a

Once you leave, regardless of whether or not you land safely, you are bound by the secret laws of the US as in, don't say anything to anyone. If you do, we'll kill you anyway.

Live a life of secrecy until you fry on your way back.

Great to go out into nothing and gain an experience that you can never reveal when you get back.

Unless you are coached by National Security to say there is nothing out there.

If there isn't, why go?

To touch the stars? Land on the moon in Hollywood studios?

 

[ksmybuttons]

I would go, but I know they wouldn't want me...

 

[Silverluna]

strap me on baby!!! Oh yeah I'd go in a new york minute! If I blow up....it won't matter much...I'll just be reunited with the All.

 

[Mad_Jack_Rabbit]

...I'll just be reunited with the All.

The All? They were a sixties band weren't they?

 

[Secret Kate]

I'm a definate maybe!! It sounds like quite an adventure, but to leave my kids behind would be hard to do. My husband would go in a heart beat though - he grew up a stones throw from NASA JSC and worked there in high school through a co-op program. He even gets to go there for work once in a great while - consulting wise. So yes he'll go - and he can go in my place.

 

[glamorilla]

totally.

 

[Saint Valentine]

Say NASA called you tomorrow, and asked you to go on the next shuttle mission. Would you leave all you love here to go and watch the 40 minute sunrise/sunsets, the electrical "sprites" surging out of the atmosphere, the stars and moon without the hazy atmosphere of earth, the lights of all the cities of earth, to float like a feather, to conduct experiments that benefit the whole of humanity......with the knowledge you may die in the endeavor?

Absolutely. In a heartbeat. So very few people get the oppurtunity to see the earth from that perspective. If I did and something happened and I didn't make it back, I would die happy.

 

[iwmggw]

Iwould gladly go. And........if it were my time to die,(with apologies to EJ) like a roman candle in the wind, that wouldn't be so bad either. Kuntmode...........don't let that paranoia of yours keep you from enjoying the richness of the universe, it sounds like you could use an encounter with other lifeforms....possibly, an anal probe could set you onto the path of scientific enlightenment.

 

[Silverluna]

the All as in whatever creative force created this world....be it God or Goddess...


BtW Hello Saint!

 

[Killswitch]

I voted no.

I'm not affraid....I'm just not interested. There are plenty of things on Earth I would like to do however.

 

[Kuntmode]

n/a

Lost Cause has made a brilliant thread here.

If indeed the majority of the response is YES, then hopefully within the next 10 years, a population of over 500 million people will all go into space, and fingers crossed, they won't come back and alas:

PEACE on EARTH at LAST!



Bar the odd few of women I wouldn't mind sticking my cock in before they become space dust.

 

[Spaceboy]

Hells yes I would. Adventure, excitement, the final frontier and all that jazz.