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Would you go into outer space today, if you had the chance?

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kinch said:
I would go to space in a heartbeat.

While I was there, I would throw a spaceship out the window, or the cargo bay or whatever. Well it wouldn't be a real spaceship, it would be about a foot long. I would build it to look real, and throw some microwave parts in it to make it look like it has engineering in there or something. Then I would put a dead mouse in the cockpit with a little helmet. Millions of years from now, some civilzation may find it and wonder endlessly about the little mouse-people.
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That's a neat idea. Maybe you should put a spider in there, too, or a cockroach or a rat. And this alien civilization who finds the spaceship can create all kinds of hypotheses as to the wars that must have occured between the mouse-people and the insectoids (or whoever else is in the spaceship) before an understanding was finally reached between the two and they were able to break the pull of the earth's gravity using each other's help. And maybe put a knife in one of the animal's back, making it look like they lost their trust for each other and one killed the other.

And while you're at it, why not make an entire space station filled with dead mice and cockroach people. You know, complete with command deck, living quarters and stuff. You could hide tiny pictures of mice in suggestive poses in the cock roach rooms, giving evidence to inter-species breeding.

But to answer the initial question, I would go into space.
 
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I'd go to space in a heartbeat.

The future of our species is in space, and the space shuttle and the international space station are just big wastes of time and money. Why do we need to do more zero-gravity research? We've been in space for fucking 60 years I think we've figured out what happens when you got no gravity!

We need to go to Mars, and we need to turn it into something that is profitable for private industry. And we need to do it in 10-20 years. It is VERY possible with current technology and the innovatve thinking that it would take to send humans to mars would only help the commercial sector with the new technology being researched. Think of what the moon missions did for us: almost every modern convenience had some start in space research (computers, velcro, to name a few).

This anti-risk, if-you-so-much-as-sneeze-we-gotta-abort attitude NASA and the government has just pisses me off to no end. Nothing is going to get done if you want to make every mission 100% no-risk.

In conclusion, M-A-R-S.

Mars, bitches!

Red ROCKS!
 
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I am a bit of a control freak so I would go but only under my conditions.

I would have to be the commander and fly the mission.
If it was scheduled to take off Tuesday at 10:00AM we would be out of there early.
No stops for the bathroom.
Kinch could only fly his mouse mobile after he finished his mission.

I cannot remember that last time I went without sex or a cold beer for more than 7 days so imagine the flight would be over about that time.

So yeah I would go.
 
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Where do I sign up? :)

If kinch and Zurp teaming up on posts becomes a trend, though, that just might be otherworldly enough for now. By the way, I once had a dream that my cat had kittens, but they were actually crickets. (Freaky cat.) So, could you set something like that up in the miniship? Intergalactic practical jokes are soooooo cool...
 
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You'd have to fight me for the open seat. I can't see how anyone would NOT want to go. The most spectacular view you could possibly have and the effect of a 12-pack beer-drunk for a week straight...
 
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Absolutely. I do not have the words to describe the happiness I felt during childhood with each successful shuttle flight landing. The setbacks that NASA currently faces are monumental, but not enough to stop me. A child doesn't stop trying to walk because they fall. Falling is part of the learning process. In time the child learns to run. I really hope to see that day for humanity with space flight.
 
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