Poll: Space Pioneering - Would You?

[WaywardHaymaker]

No, I'm not nearly rugged enough to be a first-wave colonist. I need my 21st century comforts, and even in space, you must ration them if you want to live on a previously uninhabited planet.

Although to a well-developed colony? Hells yes. Hopefully we'd avoid the same mistakes we've made here on Earth when moving into a new place, and it's fucking SPACE. How awesome is that?

 

[Bad Cluster]

I would only go if I know that if something goes wrong, it'll be over quickly...

Why?

Read "I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon" by Philip K Dick, that is the ultimate horror of space travel.

Quote from wiki:
In the story, a man (Victor Kemmings) regains consciousness during a failed attempt at cryosleep on board a spaceship. The ship's artificial intelligence cannot repair the malfunction and cannot wake him, so Kemmings is doomed to remain conscious but paralyzed through the ship's entire ten-year-long journey. To maintain his sanity, the AI replays Kemmings's memories to him. But when this goes awry, the ship AI asks Kemmings what he wants most -- and the answer is that Kemming wants the trip to be over and to arrive at his new home. The AI constructs such a scenario for Kemming and plays it to him over and over for the next ten years. When the ship finally arrives at its destination, Kemming cannot accept reality and believes his arrival to be yet another construction.

 

[MarsProbe]

I'd likely give it a shot. Sure there would be dangers but if there is one thing to be willing to take the risk for, it should the chance to head and explore the vastness of space.

But yeh, I don't know if I'd really want to be one of the first out there. Turning up maybe a few years down the line, setting up camp in a fairly well-developed human colony on an alien world? That sounds like a good deal to me.

 

[Kais86]

I didn't spend a large portion of my life mastering navigation, so I could wander around a previously existed, and already well-mapped area.

 

[BlackStar42]

Oh yes. It's like the discovery of the New World. The chance for great wealth, a new life, a whole new freaking planet, limitless opportunities.... the journey would suck though. I'd need a bloody huge games/music collection.

 

[DustyDrB]

My straw reaches acroooooooooss the galaxy and starts to drink your milkshake. I drink your space milkshake! I drink it up!

Yeah, I would. But pity the poor planet that becomes our colony.

 

[emeraldrafael]

Pioneers didnt seem to get a good rep from what Ive <url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wing_Commander_%28film%29>seen, however Ive never been about being in the in.

Id go. It would be cool, and i dont really have anything holding me down here. especially if my friends came (which if Im willing to go, Im sure they are). If we die, we die. Its not like we werent going to on earth, and at least "death by asteroid tearing your ship in half" sounds a lot cooler and more fulfilling then "death by congested heart failure after sitting on your fat ass all day doing the norm".

 

[godofallu]

Even normal planes secretly piss me off. Takeoffs + cramped quarters from hours on end!

So yeah an actual space ship would be terrible.

I would however like to wander around a new world with a revolver, however I don't think frontier planets get highspeed internet and all the videogame releases of other more populater planets.

 

[Ohlawdylawdy]

I would be on the first colony ship if i could. The chance to just see the universe is just to tempting to pass up.

 

[ALYKZANDYR]

Once all the technology is proven, and and light speed travel is viable, i would enjoy living and working in space. Setting up robotic mining operations on plantets and asteroids,( robots do the work, humans oversee the operations), terraforming, space colonies, all cool stuff once the technology is there.

and last but not least, a fleet of Imperial Star Destroyers in the US Space Navy. That would be awesome.

 

[Free Thinker]

Space is the final frontier, where there exists planets and moons of valuable resources. To take part in something so groundbreaking would be an honor.

 

[Womplord]

Of course I would! It's not like I have anything better to do with my life.

 

[Foxbat Flyer]

Id go, Who wouldnt want to go? You only live once, and if i can spend that life helping others while enjoying it? Awesome

 

[RandomNumber]

Just give me an on-ship Library for me to look after and a few dozen other people to make me feel like the work I'm doing is actually neccessary, and I'm on board!

Plus, it would help keep everyone on board sane if we had something to read while we're hurtling through the infinite emptiness of outer space for all that time.

I know it's been said a hundred times before, but it's not like I've got all that much going for me down here on earth. I might as well see if the new world we colonize does any better than the old one. Maybe we could draw out that whole Rennisance thing a few more years this time?