Oh cool, oh cool, oh cool!

[pyrephox]

New Solar System Discovered! One that is Sol-structured, but smaller, with larger gaseous planets, and possible room for inhabitable (or inhabited!) planets closer in around their reddish sun.

DO WANT.

Today's question: If a habitable, earth-like world were discovered tomorrow, and you had the opportunity to hop on a ship and become a colonist, would you do it? For me...absolutely.

Comments

[cmerun12.livejournal.com]

Today's question: If a habitable, earth-like world were discovered tomorrow, and you had the opportunity to hop on a ship and become a colonist, would you do it?

A few years ago, I would have said "Sure!! Sign me up!" Now that I have my niece and nephews in my life, I'm not so peachy keen about leaving them behind. I want to watch them grow up and be a part of their lives.

[pyrephox.livejournal.com]

There is that; it would be a lot harder to pick up and go with small relatives that I felt close to.

[byzantienne]

I don't know.

I'm not a good colonist, on paper. My skills are too specialized for first-wave colonies (I can't farm, doctor, or build), and I don't do that well outside of urban environments.

I mean. COLONIES. Eeeee.

But I'd probably wait. Third-wave colonist, mostlike.

[cpip.livejournal.com]

I'd probably die shortly after landfall for lack of competency, but sure! Why the hell not?

[pyrephox.livejournal.com]

*snickers* You sell yourself short, monsieur.

[soulscode.livejournal.com]

They'll need more than laborers. People that can use their brains for more than keeping their ears apart will come in quite handy. 8)

[oyving.livejournal.com]

Hm, but wouldn't it be more of a life in space? I guess going there would take a couple of generations. But living in a self-contained space ship sounds cool too!

[pyrephox.livejournal.com]

Assume FTL, cyro, or something else that would ensure that you could get to the planet while still hale and hearty.

But, yeah, life on a spaceship wouldn't be that bad, either!

[aerlorn.livejournal.com]

Sign me up!

[pyrephox.livejournal.com]

Yay!

[usekh.livejournal.com]

Would they have WoW servers?

[pyrephox.livejournal.com]

Nope! Not unless wireless technology gets a LOT better. But they might have strange alien pets!

[cpip.livejournal.com]

I guess they could put a DEDICATED WoW server up for the colonists...

[archangelbeth]

I'd be wary of leaving for anywhere that didn't have good medtech, alas!

Still, The Much Cool! ...we need FTL.

[soulscode.livejournal.com]

I'm in. 8D

I'm semi-capable of the basics, but I think they'll need more than that. Humans are too dependent on technology these days to not take a bunch of it with them, and they'll need geeks to keep that stuff running. Communications networks for talking to home and others scouting the planet for starters. 8)

[undauntra.livejournal.com]

I desperately wish I could go, but I'm not convinced it would be ethical for me to take up a berth that might better go to someone younger and more fertile. :(

[dreadmouse.livejournal.com]

Oh! Good Question!

I'd have to say no, sadly. I have multi-obligations here and am also not 100% medically speaking. Plus, being a first wave colonist is a heck of a lot of work, and the politics would be a web of deceit and pain, which would also drive me nuts since I'm as politically astute as the average log, unless it was all run under military-like fiat which would also not suit me.

Frontiers are wonderful things for the brave and the bold. At the moment, I am neither.