Jeremiah.s
asked:
If you could live the life of an astronaut, leave everyone and everything behind on Earth and explore the stars, would you do it? Would you travel into deep space for years to come?
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Tobias Taylor
Without question. I couldn't exist on Earth wondering at the possibility I had turned down.
William
Under idealised conditions, yes.
1. I would have to be 25 or 30 again, not 63!
2. There would have to be reliable, side-effect-free deep sleep
3. Velocities of 10-20% the speed of light or more
4. The ship would need to support 25-50 travellers, for intelligence, variety and skills
5. Medical technology etc would have to preclude any but the most mild illnesses
6. Bionic amplification of our bodies, e.g. integrated AI inside our minds
None of these requirements seem to ask too much, for if we intend to visit the stars, we had better grow up and be truly ready. No "going over the falls in a barrel" for me.
1. I would have to be 25 or 30 again, not 63!
2. There would have to be reliable, side-effect-free deep sleep
3. Velocities of 10-20% the speed of light or more
4. The ship would need to support 25-50 travellers, for intelligence, variety and skills
5. Medical technology etc would have to preclude any but the most mild illnesses
6. Bionic amplification of our bodies, e.g. integrated AI inside our minds
None of these requirements seem to ask too much, for if we intend to visit the stars, we had better grow up and be truly ready. No "going over the falls in a barrel" for me.
S. Baker
As Tobias Taylor wrote; I could not walk the Earth, looking up at the stars, knowing I had refused the opportunity to explore them.
Rizki Aditya
To reach another galaxy, or proving the extraterrestrial were exist, or maybe scouting a potential planet for future human race to inhabit, well the answer is yes. It will be a great opportunity though. And maybe it will be a peaceful death, floating on space. Well, as long as the computer like HAL didn't mess up and kill everyone on board, it will be nice.
Benjamin Atkinson
If you mean, future astronaut, travelling say at 1% the speed of light where time aboard ship would be distorted relative to earth time, the answer is yes. I love my family, but I feel that it is part of our reason for existence to be curious and explore. Considering, the Milky Way galaxy alone is home to 75-100 billion stars, and we have already identified multiple systems in our galactic family cluster that appear to have many of the qualities necessary to sustain an Earth like bio-sphere, it is a cultural imperative to keep curiosity and discovery alive. Probably within the next 50 years we will have walked on Mars. Saturn has a very interesting moon named Enceladus which mysteriously has no atmosphere and should by all rights be a frozen rock is not. The Cassini discovered a six mile deep warm ocean underneath the northern pole, and evidence of thermal vents, which begs the question of organisms on our own planet that live without sunlight and sustain life through these magma hot vents. Jupiter also has a moon called Europa, which has a connection with 2001, and its sequels that also possibly has an underground ocean. I believe that spending years in space would require cryogenic sleep, along with the right dynamic of men and women, but it can be accomplished. I would love the opportunity.
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