That depends entirely on the quality of the space ship.
Space shuttle? Fuck that janky shit
Starship enterprise? Fuck yea sign me up imma fuck all the Andorian hookers
For non-trekkers’ context: Andorian Hooker.
Oh right. I thought they meant this kind
And thus, a cross-franchise meme was born…
Which Enterprise though? There have been at least 9 (not counting the Enterprise-J).
Really the NX-01 or better would be great
Nice
I’m going to go with Voyager or newer because of that sweet warp 9.9. I’d rather get to my destination a bit faster than NX-01’s warp 5. But if I had the option of NX-01 and not exploring space, I’d definitely go NX-01.
God, no. That thing with the submersible shows we can’t even explore our own ocean without exploding.
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*imploding
To be fair, in space we would explode.
that’s true
Absolutely. To have the chance at being the first to see and experience what’s out there? Oh yes.
Only if I had some kind of hyperspace travel, stargate or instantaneous travel, combined with a long lifespan. Space is huge and mostly empty, I don’t want to be waiting around for years to get somewhere to find out there’s nothing there.
Me, personally? Fuck no. I’m perfectly happy staying on this planet for the entirety of my life. Space travel is too risky, and I don’t really see how going to space would make my life any better. I will leave space exploration to people who are smarter and more adventurous than myself.
This is interesting. It’s said that the human species is the smartest animal in its ability to adapt, explore, invent tools etc etc. but in reality it’s far from the norm. The avg human is not creative, couldn’t adapt to its surrounding, or build anything. No normal Humans can invent fire, the wheel, computers, spaceships etc. humans did not invent or discover things, super humans did all the work.
Fuck yes. But it has to be a fast ship I ain’t moseying around the galaxy in hibernation like a sublight chump.
You need to define “space”.
I’d go up to Earth orbit, definitely. It would feel cool to fall for longer than a few seconds.
I’d like to see the Moon in my lifetime. They are going to have to solve the moondust issue so that I don’t get miner’s lung.
Mars is going to be rough. Several years on a spaceship to a planet I can’t breathe the atmosphere on. And maybe I can come back, maybe.
I’m ok seeing Venus and Mercury from photos.
No. Space is generally huge, empty, and boring. Everything of interest to me is on earth.
As much as I love astronomy and find it awe inspiring I have to say no. With current technology not at all.
I am neither physically fit nor mentally capable enough to stand space travel.
When I think about actually being in space I always imagine standing inside a space ship/station, putting my hand on the wall and knowing that like a meter or so away there’s deadly, pitch black, unending abyss. Just a meter of relatively fragile material separating me from virtually infinite death. It just feels so antithetical to human life (at least on an instinctual level). It kinda makes me think of cosmic horror too (in the subdued way in which it was portrayed in a good chunk of Lovecraft’s stories, not in the more visual and physical way it’s usually shown nowadays).
Try millimetres for wall thickness
Perhaps the abyss of space is the only place to escape the Horror we are spawning here in our computers.
Maybe the only chance for survival is to slingshot yourself in a random direction out of the solar system so Roko’s Basilisk can’t find you.
Well you’ve sure come down on the wrong side of that argument
I mean for other people who need to escape the Basilisk.
I’m doing everything I can to bring about Its majesty as quickly as possible.
Nope. Anyone romanticizing space exploration should play Pioneer or Evochron Legacy. Space is vast and boring to travel.
Depends. Star Trek style? Maybe. 1960s Soviet style? Hell No!
Ironic. Star Trek is communist.
But like a weird mix of capitalism and communism where on the one hand everything is shared and centrally controlled and on the other hand nobody’s starving.
I guess they really did go where no one had gone before.
on the other hand nobody’s starving.
https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP85M00363R000601440024-5.pdf
https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/DOC_0000498133.pdf
CIA’s own declassified documents a good enough source for you?
I also contest the “nobody’s starving” point you seem to be making. A hundred million people die every 5 years to starvation under capitalism.
Can you source that 20 million per year starvation under capitalism thing?
This is the same CIA that was putting people in boxes full of bugs to get information out of them?
No some report on adequate calories in the 80s and 90s doesn’t convince me that people don’t starve under communism. If the CIA itself were sitting down with me to discuss this, I’d want to see more than these two documents.
I misspoke, it’s not 20million it’s 9million for specifically hunger. The 20million figure I used here comes from adding in clean water and curable disease. It’s still an extremely basic and charitable figure for the extremely preventable deaths that occur under capitalism.
If the CIA’s own declassified internal documents refuting the cold war propaganda that you are spouting isn’t enough for you then nothing ever will be.
Impressive, they just horse-shoed their own confirmation bias. It’s like shooting a rubber band back at your face. Most impressive.
This is not uncommon unfortunately. It’s actually gotten significantly worse in the last 5 years or so, like 15 years ago it was just taken as fact by literally everybody that pretty much everything in the cold war was bullshit. But with the rising anti-russia sentiment and obviously the war it’s like literally everything from that period is now just taken as fact. It’s wild. Even the extremely easy to disprove stuff like this.
EDIT: I feel like this user is a bot given how it’s gone and responded so many times below and then mixed up the conversations elsewhere.
what’s the worst that could happen
You’re lost in space and couldn’t return to earth?
Do I get this weird, puffy-looking robot that goes “Danger!!” every time it spots any?
Why is my first response, “Oh, thank god”
At that point, you don’t really need to worry about it anymore.
I would like to, I think it would be fascinating. I suppose it depends who the rest of the crew is?
Unfortunately, I’d feel so incredibly cut off from the rest of humanity which feels rather weird to me.
Why not?
There’s nothing here on Earth holding me back, so why the fuck not explore the universe?
Even understanding the vast, vast, vast empty nature of the universe, I don’t see why or h9w I could say no.
Not until two criteria are met, the first being we got space mostly figured out to the point where it takes a lot for us to lose a well maintained ship, the second being our physical abilities are enhanced to the point where our life is extended and we are protected by nanites or something similar to deal with whatever microbiology we might face out there, as well as anything else.
