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Posted: 9/12/2010 1:32:46 PM EDT

[#1]

Dibs on the green woman.

Posted: 9/12/2010 1:35:40 PM EDT

[#2]

I I was single i'd be gone!

but I'll stick with the kids now

Posted: 9/12/2010 1:40:17 PM EDT

[#3]

Nope. I was with you until I got to the part where you lie to my family about a car wreck. Seriously, why all the smoke and mirrors? "Sure, Bob, you can go, we'll tell your wife and kids you are dead and then you hope the life insurance holds out, that's what a real responsible adult would do."

Posted: 9/12/2010 1:54:46 PM EDT

[#4]

Quoted:

Quoted:
I'll go so long as the other 199 are women

You want to be locked in a tin can with 199 women who have PMS?

What are the odds of them having PMS at the same time, let along half

Posted: 9/12/2010 1:58:13 PM EDT

[#5]

Only if I get to choose my mating partner.

Posted: 9/12/2010 2:00:59 PM EDT

[#6]

Quoted:

Lots of potential Heaven's Gate members here.

There's a big fucking difference between this scenario, and the Heaven's Gate folks.

Posted: 9/12/2010 2:08:40 PM EDT

[#7]

Nope, I'm not a farmer, and that's what they would need and send.

Posted: 9/12/2010 2:10:25 PM EDT

[#8]

Yes,

"The human race shouldn't have all its eggs in one basket, or on one planet. Let's hope we can avoid dropping the basket until we have spread the load" -Stephen Hawking

Posted: 9/12/2010 2:10:47 PM EDT

[#9]

Yes, sign me up.

The guy to girl ratio is a little dicey though. Seriously, if there were scientists and behavioral types behind the project, there would be a higher percentage of females than males. Maybe something like 65/35.

Do you guys know what happened to the mutineers of the HMS Bounty? Once they went to Tahiti, they took on some local chicks and some local dudes to help them handle the ship. I believe it was balanced 50/50 male/female.

Shortly after they arrived at Pitcairn Island, one of the women died.....dooming one of the dudes to an eternity of tuggin'. This threw the group into conflict. When an American whaling ship came to Pitcairn 19 years later, there was only one dude left, a bunch of women, and a gaggle of kids.

Our colonization mission must be given the chance to succeed! It needs more women!

Posted: 9/12/2010 2:11:24 PM EDT

[#10]

Hell yeah. don't think they'd pick me; but I've procreated here on earth, I've left my mark. It would be cool to see what else was out there.

Posted: 9/12/2010 2:12:53 PM EDT

[#11]

Not a chance.

Given Nasa's propensity to fuck things up you'd end up like the Challenger, plummeting down to the ocean wondering what your memorial was going to look like.

Posted: 9/12/2010 2:20:06 PM EDT

[#12]

Quoted:
Nope. I was with you until I got to the part where you lie to my family about a car wreck. Seriously, why all the smoke and mirrors? "Sure, Bob, you can go, we'll tell your wife and kids you are dead and then you hope the life insurance holds out, that's what a real responsible adult would do."

Yeah.
If my family was taken care of and etc., that'd be different

Posted: 9/12/2010 2:22:48 PM EDT

[#13]

Hell yeah I would go!

Of course, I would tell a couple close friends the "truth" so that they can inform everyone after I left

Also, I would need a suitable mating partner

Posted: 9/12/2010 2:24:44 PM EDT

[#14]

We should have already. We have virtually all of the technology required to build a ship and head out into the void...but not the balls. We are far more worried about fucking American Idol...porn...paying back the unions...stained dresses...and turning America into a socialist Utopia.

We should be building a monster ship...miles long and across, with enough volume to house a sufficiently large human colony to ensure a sufficiently broad genetic mix and sufficient [renewable] resources to permit many generations to explore our solar system. We should use an advanced propulsion system such as the Broussard Ramject to accelerate the monster ship as close to light speed as is possible. (Yes...I understand the pitfalls here such as "scoop drag" and the effects of solar wind but it seems possible, especially if we can get the CNO cycle to work.) We'd have to sail it like a sailboat, tacking across the vector of a star's solar wind.

Maybe we could employ anti-matter engines...

I don't know but we should be heading out there. We are EXPLORERS!

Besides...when the "Big One" hits, the folks on the ship will be the only surviving humans from Earth.

Posted: 9/12/2010 2:30:07 PM EDT

[#15]

Sign me up

Posted: 9/12/2010 2:35:54 PM EDT

[#16]

Quoted:
We should have already. We have virtually all of the technology required to build a ship and head out into the void...but not the balls. We are far more worried about fucking American Idol...porn...paying back the unions...stained dresses...and turning America into a socialist Utopia.

We should be building a monster ship...miles long and across, with enough volume to house a sufficiently large human colony to ensure a sufficiently broad genetic mix and sufficient [renewable] resources to permit many generations to explore our solar system. We should use an advanced propulsion system such as the Broussard Ramject to accelerate the monster ship as close to light speed as is possible. (Yes...I understand the pitfalls here such as "scoop drag" and the effects of solar wind but it seems possible, especially if we can get the CNO cycle to work.) We'd have to sail it like a sailboat, tacking across the vector of a star's solar wind.

Maybe we could employ anti-matter engines...

I don't know but we should be heading out there. We are EXPLORERS!

Besides...when the "Big One" hits, the folks on the ship will be the only surviving humans from Earth.

Generation Ships FTW!

Posted: 9/12/2010 3:25:21 PM EDT

[#17]

History shows that the first few groups that go to a totally new place (i.e. America during very early colonization) tend to die or be killed. I'll wait it out.

Posted: 9/12/2010 3:27:30 PM EDT

[#18]

i would need lots of vodak, before i would go colonoize

Posted: 9/12/2010 3:31:05 PM EDT

[#19]

FUH-Q

Posted: 9/12/2010 3:36:26 PM EDT

[#20]

fuck no
we carved out a piece of nowhere and made it our home.
not moving

Posted: 9/12/2010 3:36:41 PM EDT

[#21]

Quoted:

Not a chance.

Given Nasa's propensity to fuck things up you'd end up like the Challenger, plummeting down to the ocean wondering what your memorial was going to look like.

Quick Wiki scan and back of the envelope calculation so not perfect, but close enough for discussion.

7 Mercury launches (7 crew)

10 Gemini launches (20 crew)

11 Apollo launches (33 crew)

3 Apollo/Skylab launches (9 crew)

1 ASTP (3 crew)

132 Shuttle launches (say average crew of 6 for a total of ~792 people) That total is probably a bit higher, but close enough.

2 in-flight failures = total 14 crew killed

164 manned launches carrying ~864 people

So, based on NASA history from 1961 to 2010 you've got about 1 in 50 chance that you'll die on a particular flight.

I wonder what the death rates were for people coming to the New World from Europe? Or what it was for the settlers departing their cities and towns and striking out to homestead the West?

Accidents, disease, hostile natives. Lot of people didn't make it and I'll bet most of them knew the odds before they set out, yet they still went.

Posted: 9/12/2010 3:38:56 PM EDT

[#22]

Yes, but only if I get to pick who goes and nuke Earth from orbit.

Posted: 9/12/2010 3:39:35 PM EDT

[#23]

Suicide mission ehh? Not sure

Posted: 9/12/2010 3:47:14 PM EDT

[#24]

I gotta say that I've always said that I'd go in a heartbeat.

But, after thinking a bit about your scenario, I just don't know that I could spur of the moment drop EVERYTHING and go on a one-way colonizing trip where we don';t know squat about what we're going to find.

Can't imagine NASA would mount an expedition without a bit more info either.

Posted: 9/12/2010 3:47:25 PM EDT

[#25]

I AM A CAPITALIST WHO WHATS TO RAPE OUTER SPACE!!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted: 9/12/2010 4:12:12 PM EDT

[#26]

i refuse to go on a gay space cruise with a bunch of you slack jawed telephone sanitizers

yeah eta, this very gag was used in hitchhikers guide to rid a planet of undesirables and idiots, they wound up colonizing earth i believe, gilgfranchans or something

Posted: 9/12/2010 5:14:20 PM EDT

[#27]

Careful with this, I did it once and ended up here.

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Posted: 9/12/2010 5:32:45 PM EDT

[#28]

Pern?

Posted: 9/12/2010 5:44:00 PM EDT

[#29]

Quoted:
Careful with this, I did it once and ended up here.

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In GD????

Posted: 9/12/2010 6:01:45 PM EDT

[#30]

Quoted:
Only if I get to choose my mating partners.

Fixt it.

Posted: 9/12/2010 8:37:56 PM EDT

[#31]

Quoted:

Quoted:
I'll go so long as the other 199 are women

You want to be locked in a tin can with 199 women who have PMS?

What are the odds of them having PMS at the same time, let along half

Women synchronize if kept in close proximity.

Posted: 9/12/2010 8:39:05 PM EDT

[#32]

Only if I can get or take a weapon and a lifetime supply of ammunition, or energy cells....

The settlers didn't colonize without having some freaking guns, I'm no different.

Other than that, hell yes.

Posted: 9/12/2010 8:49:25 PM EDT

[#33]

I you had caught me in my 20's sure. Not now, I'll wait till the second load when families go.

Posted: 9/12/2010 9:05:03 PM EDT

[#34]

only if it was like a japanese anime and i could pilot one of these bad boys

Posted: 9/12/2010 9:08:02 PM EDT

[#35]

hell yes.

but only if I could bring plenty of guns and ammo.

Posted: 9/12/2010 9:12:38 PM EDT

[#36]

Quoted:
I have a family.

For better or for worse, I am staying here for them.

_MaH

Posted: 9/12/2010 9:14:59 PM EDT

[#37]

Yes.

Something like that is what I was born to do. I was just born too late for the colonization of America and too early for the colonization of space.

I want to bring along an M41a pulse rifle and plenty of ammo though.

Posted: 9/12/2010 9:15:45 PM EDT

[#38]

Quoted:

how many of the crew are liberals? if there's anywhere near a majority, I'll decline, as the colony wouldn't stand a chance.

This.

And I'd sketch something down on a piece of scrap paper to let someone know "I'm alive and well on a space mission, don't believe the papers".

And away I'd go.

Posted: 9/12/2010 9:18:20 PM EDT

[#39]

absolutely!

I would go.

Posted: 9/12/2010 9:21:45 PM EDT

[#40]

No questions asked. Well one. Would they be issuing FAL rifles?

Also, if they're issuing FALs they can afford to issue PVS-15s as well.

Posted: 9/12/2010 9:30:54 PM EDT

[#41]

after i kill off the other 99 males and jettison their bodies i think it would be great..until the females start getting synchronised on their ovulation

Posted: 9/12/2010 9:39:24 PM EDT

[#42]

No.

I would not be able to leave the woman I love.

Never.

Posted: 9/12/2010 10:02:43 PM EDT

[#43]

There is nothing that would make me want to leave my wife and daughter.

Posted: 9/12/2010 10:13:53 PM EDT

[#44]

Hell yeah I'd go. Early 20s and single, nothing here tying me down.

Posted: 9/12/2010 10:17:22 PM EDT

[#45]

There are a couple colonization organizations that have been around for a while.

Many years back there was a sign up for Mars colonization. I signed up! Heh, I don't remember who was organizing the list, but it was good fun.

Virgin Global and Google have a plan going as of today.

You can find info here: http://www.google.com/virgle/

Considering that privatized space flight is going to happen within our lifetime I do not see it that far reached that some may plan such an event in the near future.

For thousands of years,

the human race has spread out across
the Earth, scaling mountains and plying the oceans, planting crops and
building highways, raising skyscrapers and atmospheric CO2 levels, and
observing, with tremendous and unflagging enthusiasm, the Biblical
injunction to be fruitful and multiply across our world's every last
nook, cranny and subdivision.

An invitation.

Earth has issues, and it's time
humanity got started on a Plan B. So, starting in 2014, Virgin founder
Richard Branson and Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin will
be leading hundreds of users on one of the grandest adventures in human
history: Project Virgle, the first permanent human colony on Mars.

The question is, do you want to join us?

Ever yearned to journey to the stars? You can learn how to become a Virgle Pioneer, test your Pioneering potential, or join the Mission Control community that will help develop the 100 Year Plan we've outlined here.

Posted: 9/12/2010 10:59:04 PM EDT

[#46]

Given your scenario, there is no option but to go. They aren't going to let you leave and tell everyone about the secret space mission.

Posted: 9/12/2010 11:18:52 PM EDT

[#47]

Quoted:

Quoted:
I'll go so long as the other 199 are women

You want to be locked in a tin can with 199 women who have PMS?

What are the odds of them having PMS at the same time, let along half

Women synchronize if kept in close proximity.

This. Better knock them up fast.. wait 199 women having pregnant hormone issues. You'd be a dead man

Posted: 9/12/2010 11:20:51 PM EDT

[#48]

Quoted:

Quoted:

I don`t want to live in a can

You wouldn't be, it's on a planet.

Quoted:

sure, but we're unable to procreate in space so we should keep earth for young and productive, everyone else gets thrown in space.

1.) Says who? IIRC there have been expeiments done on frogs and they did the deed. To my knowlegde it hasn't been attempted with humans. Except that one crazy broad with teh Depends maybe.

2.) It wouldn't be "in space" it would be on a planet.

Zero gravity space sex could be freaky fun... I wanna try it