If a new planet was found, would you go?

[hjmick]

Lets pretend a new planet has been discovered...not too far away..and is able to sustain human life. Governments all around the globe are offering free land if you go there permanently. Would you go?

Do they have USMB?

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Lets pretend a new planet has been discovered...not too far away..and is able to sustain human life. Governments all around the globe are offering free land if you go there permanently. Would you go?

What's the CO2 level?

 

[petro]

Maybe. They got moonshine there?

Yeah.
There has to be booze.
Hell if I would go to a dry county, let alone an entire planet.

There better be hookers too.

 

[Unkotare]

I'm too old to go (I'm 82 and will soon be going somewhere else).

Maybe the discovery of many new planets will be the salvation of humankind.

Each group (gender, ethnicity, religion, sexuality, etc.) can have its very own planet.

Then everybody can live in a harmonious society with like-minded people.

82 and you never studied History?

 

[Likkmee]

I'm too old to go (I'm 82 and will soon be going somewhere else).

Maybe the discovery of many new planets will be the salvation of humankind.

Each group (gender, ethnicity, religion, sexuality, etc.) can have its very own planet.

Then everybody can live in a harmonious society with like-minded people.

Easy. Become a mormon

 

[Shawnee_b]

Maybe. They got moonshine there?

Yeah.
There has to be booze.
Hell if I would go to a dry county, let alone an entire planet.

There better be hookers too.

Agree! We must be brothers from different mothers?

 

[gipper]

As long as the climate is warm and the women are hot, I’m ready.

 

[Unkotare]

Would there be facilities to work on fitness?

 

[Flash]

Did anyone every read HG Wells "War of the Worlds"? Remember what happen to the Martians?

If humans ever went to an earth like planet with a diverse biosphere the same thing would happen to them as what happen to the Martians in Well's book.

There would be viruses and other bugs that they would have absolutely no immunity to.

On the other side of the coin just think of the diseases we would bring to that planet.

 

[Polishprince]

Lets pretend a new planet has been discovered...not too far away..and is able to sustain human life. Governments all around the globe are offering free land if you go there permanently. Would you go?

No. I like earth, and know a lot of people here. I don't own any kind of transportation to make it back and forth, and my mum doesn't have any place at her home for me to park a flying saucer when I visit here

 

[MarathonMike]

No, farming is too hard a life for me.

There is beauty in it's simplicity and peace. Do not knock it till you try it. There is something special and right about making your living off the land that can not be explained unless you have done it. I hold several profesional licenses including surveyor,civil engineer,appraiser, and upto 300 ton ship captain. I have found farmer and ship captain to be the most rewarding. I find myself depressed when my fishng charter ends and not freeking wait to get up and do it again the next day. I like captain best if I am running fishing charters. As far as farming goes planting and harest are pretty happy times. Animals are a pain in the ass you can never get away from them but they sure taste good. If you have no animals fishing in the keys all winter is pretty nice.

Conceptually I see the beauty and simplicity of being a self sufficient farmer. Realistically I know that I enjoy my leisure time too much to be working 14 hour days keeping a farm going. I have relatives who are farmers and I have no idea how they do it.

 

[MarathonMike]

In a heartbeat.

Maybe I'll just stay here then.

Wouldn't want any conservitard snowflakes there anyway.

There would be no government on a new planet, so your political affiliation would be meaningless.

 

[Dick Foster]

In a heartbeat.

You ain't left yet? Do you need someone to stick a rocket in your ass and light the fuse?

 

[Gracie]

I'm glad y'all are having fun with the initial question...which unfortunately I don't have ansswers to your questions. But do carry on! Its supposed to be a fun thread, and turned out that way.

 

[deannalw]

In a heartbeat.

Great! Be sure to write.

Yeah but the stamp costs 147 million bucks.

 

[deannalw]

I'd start the journey ... but it will take many many many generations to get there ... 1% of c is 2.7 million miles per hour ... or 470 years until we reach the closest star ... it's easy to get the fuel needed to get to that speed, but we'd have to carry with us the same amount of fuel to slow down once we get there ...

There's already life there, or the planet wouldn't be habitable ... so there will be pathogens that we have no defenses for ... whoever arrived would quickly die ... there's a 50% chance that proteins spin the wrong way there ... thousands of years of weightlessness, gravity alone would kill us ...

If we don't solve our problems here on Earth ... then we'd just take those problems with us ... so what's the point? ...

But... will there be beer?

 

[TroglocratsRdumb]

Lets pretend a new planet has been discovered...not too far away..and is able to sustain human life. Governments all around the globe are offering free land if you go there permanently. Would you go?

Only if the Troglocrats can't go too

 

[deannalw]

and RICH!!

 

[deannalw]

Would there be facilities to work on fitness?

Good idea!

I'll set up my beer bar out front and sell gallons and gallons!

 

[deannalw]

Did anyone every read HG Wells "War of the Worlds"? Remember what happen to the Martians?

If humans ever went to an earth like planet with a diverse biosphere the same thing would happen to them as what happen to the Martians in Well's book.

There would be viruses and other bugs that they would have absolutely no immunity to.

On the other side of the coin just think of the diseases we would bring to that planet.

I'll eat an antibiotic sammich everyday.