Would you leave the planet if you could?

Would you leave the planet if you could?

  • Yes, immediately, even if it were dangerous and a one way trip.

    Votes: 44 43.6%

  • Yes, but only if I had the option of coming back.

    Votes: 32 31.7%

  • No, things are getting bad on earth but we can still fix things if we try.

    Votes: 20 19.8%

  • No, I like being on this planet, even if we turn our society into an Orwellian dicatorship.

    Votes: 5 5.0%
  • Total voters
    101
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Throughout these threads the most common subject is the erosion of our Liberties by an ever-growing government and the citizens that support it. In the past, when governments got too oppressive people always had the choice to pull up stakes and leave - go to the Frontier. From the Pilgrims on just about every wave of immigration was a "lower class" of people trying to escape oppression in their native lands. After the Civil War many of the newly freed slaves went West to get away from the South and the not-so-friendly-after all North.

Today, I have heard a lot of gun owners say that if Gun Control wins, we have nowhere to go. No other country would let us own guns, and there are no vacant lands. Liberals at least have the option to move to France.

So, out of curiosity, I was wondering how many here in this forum are as fed up with government as the Frontiersmen of days gone by. If it were possible (I am not looking for a scientific discussion on why it is or is not) would you sell everything you got (not your guns!) and buy a one-way ticket to another planet if you could be truly free? Even if life was really difficult?

Think about it.
 
I hate to supply a negative POV but if the oppression of governance could not be outrun by coming to the "New World" how would we pull off the escape by moving to another planet in another solar system?

If people go there, and if money is utilized there, eventually some form of governemnt and laws will be birthed, grow to maturity and screw everything up all over again.

Just my 2 cents
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I'm the curious type. I'd love to leave if I had the option of coming back.

Outside of the reason that it's an exciting opportunity to travel, I don't think society has hopped in the handbasket and started it's descent just yet. The world isn't so bad that it must be abandoned.
 
I go to a different planet everytime I go 10-8 (In-Service) it’s not that far of a trip, just across town, other side of the railroad tracks… the place your mother warned you about.

The more of society I see as a cop the more I am convinced this place is another planets hell.


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I happened to catch that episode of the Twilight Zone where the "friendly" Aliens who were offering humans a ride to their planet had their book "To Serve Humans" and it turned out to be a cookbook.

No rides into space for me thank you.

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I'm ready anytime you are preacher !

Good to go and won't look back . Explore new worlds and go where - well, you know the rest !

If we land on a planet where the critters are hungry all I gotta do is outrun the slow one - wait a minute, I think I am the slow one ! Ah , bring it on .

PS: I don't think I want any of that spicy cool aid to make the trip thought ! :p
 
Assuming the spaceship was decently well constructed and reasonable fast, I would love to explore the galaxy. Maybe come back in a few thousand years and check up on you guys lol time dilation.
 
Clicked at the wrong moment: I was ready to go, and then I thought of how I love the way the Earth smells. I voted "Yes, if I had the option of coming back."

Nonsense. Given the conditions you've set forth, and if the climate were hospitable, I'd go in a heartbeat.
 
Heck YES. It's something I'd like to do. We have the technology to get to the solar system, and the stars can't be too far behind.

Preacherman, mnrivrat, I'm driving! :cool:
 
If this was a journey to a nearby planet like Mars, then yes. Otherwise it would be a long and boring trip. For the sheer adventure alone I would do it. But if Earth had really turned that bad, would it not be reasonable to "vote from the rooftops"?
 
I read this differently than most of you, I guess.
We do all this preaching and ranting about RKBA for what? To run away when things get oppressive? Anyone remember the Revolutionary War?
Remember, the 2nd ain't about duck hunting!
 
When a place gets crowded enough to require ID's, social collapse is not far away. It is time to go elsewhere. The best thing about space travel is that it made it possible to go elsewhere.

RAH/LL
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First thing I thought of while reading the poll :D .

I voted yes with no second thoughts. Of course the chaplain of the ship might find himself breathing vacuum if he insisted upon making his puns during the long voyage :evil: .
 
like a shot

We,

humans are meant to explore,

this would be one more passage,

FYI

I have record of a 40 odd yr old ancestor on the ground in the Carolinas in the 1620's that had to be an order of magintude more hazzardous than spaceflight and it turned into a one way trip but he must have enjoyed it he got enought $$ to import most of his family.

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I have record of a 40 odd yr old ancestor on the ground in the Carolinas in the 1620's that had to be an order of magintude more hazzardous than spaceflight and it turned into a one way trip but he must have enjoyed it he got enought $$ to import most of his family.
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The first European colonists in the Eastern US had about a 15% 5 year survival rate according to The History Channel.

Makes the Shuttle look very safe in comparison.
 
Yes

It might be dangerous or risky, but I think it's very important. Maybe I've read too much Robert Heinlein, but I believe the safe long-term future of the Human Race requires us to get off this planet. If a way of colonizing is found while I am still on the sunny side of 50, and they take folks that old, I would go. That gives me 20 years to get in shape and get a useful skill.


greg
 
Yes.
I voted "only if I can return", but I wouldn't require 99.9% safety like what NASA and the public seems to want.

The more set up the facilities, or the more facilities the ship has, the more likely I am to go.

Out of 293 million people, I firmly believe that we could find a crew of under a hundred that is both highly qualified and willing to make a hazardous one way trip. As long as the 293 million who stay behind promise to follow up as best as possible.
 
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