# Starship technology appears tomorrow. Do you go? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [July 3, 2010, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/starship-technology-appears-tomorrow-do-you-go/545400 "2010-07-03T05:15:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![SevenOfTeemingMillions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/76d3ee/32.png) [@SevenOfTeemingMillions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SevenOfTeemingMillions)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2010, 8:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/starship-technology-appears-tomorrow-do-you-go/545400/41 "2010-07-05T08:10:38Z")
> [@Shawn1767](#): > > What about the job of the person who just repeats what the computer says? By Grapthar’s Hammer, why didn’t I think of that? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2010, 8:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/starship-technology-appears-tomorrow-do-you-go/545400/42 "2010-07-05T08:32:24Z")
Hell yes. Even if I knew I wouldn’t make it back. Don’t know what exactly they’d need _me_ to do on a starship, though…oh! They’ve got a holodeck, right? Maybe I could be the resident holoprogram hack writer. Keep people from getting [del]stuck in a ru-[/del] bored with their [del]sick[/del] fantasies. Or the ship ratcatcher. I could do ratcatcher. ---
**Author:** ![Lynn\_Bodoni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e47c2d/32.png) [@Lynn\_Bodoni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lynn_Bodoni)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2010, 8:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/starship-technology-appears-tomorrow-do-you-go/545400/43 "2010-07-05T08:59:06Z")
I will be the Keeper of Cats. Every starship needs some cats around. ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2010, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/starship-technology-appears-tomorrow-do-you-go/545400/44 "2010-07-05T12:55:10Z")
> [@Shawn1767](#): > > Would you volunteer to serve aboard? Yes > [@](#): > > If so, what role would you like? Captain? Support Personnel? Barber? Teacher? Research scientist? Holodeck cleaner? Scientist - planetology > [@](#): > > Where do you think we should go first? Centauri. Then the already-discovered exoplanet systems in outwards order. > [@](#): > ---
**Author:** ![Angua](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8baadc/32.png) [@Angua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Angua)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2010, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/starship-technology-appears-tomorrow-do-you-go/545400/45 "2010-07-05T14:08:27Z")
I’m in! You have a science mission, right? I want to explore some of those stars, supernovae, nebula, pulsars and all of those up close and personal. Enough with the remote sensing already! Plus, I can discover some really cool anomaly and have it named the Angua Anomaly. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Onomatopoeia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/onomatopoeia/32/4145_2.png) [@Onomatopoeia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Onomatopoeia)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2010, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/starship-technology-appears-tomorrow-do-you-go/545400/46 "2010-07-05T15:30:53Z")
> [@Shawn1767](#): > > Here are my questions: > > Would you volunteer to serve aboard? Yes. No question. I would go even if there were no chance of ever coming back to Earth. > [@Shawn1767](#): > > If so, what role would you like? Captain? Support Personnel? Barber? Teacher? Research scientist? Holodeck cleaner? Something I already do and am good at, so probably something in medical/legal compliance or regulations management. Hey, maybe I’d be the author of the prime directive! 🙂 > [@Shawn1767](#): > > Where do you think we should go first? Proxima Centauri, to see a red dwarf up close and because it’s only 4 light years away, and then Alpha Centauri, to see if there’s really anything special about a binary system. Then it would be off to the first M Class planet we could find. > [@Shawn1767](#): > > I think I would go and take my family. I’d be a teacher for the children on board. I’d take my wife if she wanted to go. If not, I’d go solo. Yeah, I’d miss her, terribly at first, but I’d be more resentful if I forwent a chance of a lifetime. Where do I sign up? ---
**Author:** ![Antinor01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecae2f/32.png) [@Antinor01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antinor01)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2010, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/starship-technology-appears-tomorrow-do-you-go/545400/47 "2010-07-06T04:25:58Z")
Yes, in a heartbeat. I’ll await my assignment from Captain Oak. On edit, bartender in 10 Forward would be cool. I’m a pretty good bartender and can make pithy, wise sounding sayings as needed. ---
**Author:** ![Todderbob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e47774/32.png) [@Todderbob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Todderbob)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2010, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/starship-technology-appears-tomorrow-do-you-go/545400/48 "2010-07-06T04:36:30Z")
Hell yes. I’d go in a heartbeat. And Id like to be captain, if the jobs open. Ultimate control over the first contact humans will have with any alien specie, their first extra-solar manned ship, etc? **Fuck yes**. I’d have the ability to set the tone for human exploration for the next period, likely forcing humanity into (what I perceive as) beneficial social changes through social interaction with other races. None of this “tell them where earth is” bullshit, my first priority is finding multiple extrasolar habitual worlds to ferry colonies to, in order to prevent any potential enemies we may meet from annihilating our entire race. Priority two, of course, is finding alien races and forging beneficial with them, exchanging cultural, economic and scientific discoveries. ---
**Author:** ![E-Sabbath](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e19adc/32.png) [@E-Sabbath](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-Sabbath)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2010, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/starship-technology-appears-tomorrow-do-you-go/545400/49 "2010-07-06T16:00:54Z")
I’m there. No question. Graveyard shift helm? (Hey, I’m a sailor, I have _some_ navigational skills.) Lunchtime relief engineering? Holodeck mopper? Guy who puts up railings on the walkways? I don’t care. I’m there. ---
**Author:** ![Squooshed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e274bd/32.png) [@Squooshed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squooshed)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2010, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/starship-technology-appears-tomorrow-do-you-go/545400/50 "2010-07-06T20:14:18Z")
I’d be there in a minute. I’ll take the wheel/levers/buttons/helm. Get to actually pilot the starship around, wherever Captain Oakminster directs? Take the ship to the next interesting phenomenon? And go faster than anyone in human history? Yes, Captain! Right away, Captain! ---
**Author:** ![Acid\_Lamp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Acid\_Lamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acid_Lamp)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2010, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/starship-technology-appears-tomorrow-do-you-go/545400/51 "2010-07-06T20:29:34Z")
I’m in! Sign me up for **exozoologist**. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2010, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/starship-technology-appears-tomorrow-do-you-go/545400/52 "2010-07-06T20:32:14Z")
I’m in, in a heartbeat with my family. Ready for retraining with some useful basic skills at least to be a good tech. ---
**Author:** ![Autolycus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@Autolycus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autolycus)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2010, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/starship-technology-appears-tomorrow-do-you-go/545400/53 "2010-07-07T05:07:12Z")
I ain’t settin’ foot in no gosh-darned transporter, but other than that I’d totally be down. Sign me up for professional holophone player. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/starship-technology-appears-tomorrow-do-you-go/545400.md?page=2)