Would you go to the moon?

[ashenRiot]

Oh! Hell! Yes! Sell everything, leave everyone, no problem! I would go even if I knew it was going to be a one-way trip…

(my SO is very happy it’s not likely to ever happen)

[Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor]

@Kalhoun

I’d go to the moon, but I don’t think I could bring myself to do a deep sea diving craft expedition thingy. The water freaks me out more than space.

Not even for 20 minutes?

BTW–LUNA! LUNA! RAH-RAH-RAH!

[Lust4Life]

Definitely.

[calm_kiwi]

@Cisco

I’ve got to know what you would prefer to going to the moon.

There are so many places, so many creatures and so many people on this planet to see, that seeing a rock that orbits Earth pales in insignificance.

We know next to nothing about one of the biggest creatures on Earth, the Collosal squid.

Most of us have little understanding of other cultures, religions and beliefs.

The geography of this planet is so mind boggling I can’t understand the urge to visit a dusty rock.

OK I can understand the urge “MUST GO HIGHER, MUST GO FASTER” etc but in my mind if you haven’t explored THIS planet then spending millions to visit the moon is …well a little bit wanky. It’s the moon! Sure it has a great view but it’s a great view of where you just left.

[Hazle_Weatherfield]

@calm_kiwi

There are so many places, so many creatures and so many people on this planet to see, that seeing a rock that orbits Earth pales in insignificance.

We know next to nothing about one of the biggest creatures on Earth, the Collosal squid.

Most of us have little understanding of other cultures, religions and beliefs.

The geography of this planet is so mind boggling I can’t understand the urge to visit a dusty rock.

OK I can understand the urge “MUST GO HIGHER, MUST GO FASTER” etc but in my mind if you haven’t explored THIS planet then spending millions to visit the moon is …well a little bit wanky. It’s the moon! Sure it has a great view but it’s a great view of where you just left.

Wow…you’ve given me pause. Very thoughtfull…nice work.

[calm_kiwi]

Thank you

[Rick]

Let’s go!

[kathmandu]

I’d probably go if someone paid for my trip. If not, there are a bazillion places I’d rather see on earth first.

[Kalhoun]

@Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor

Not even for 20 minutes?

BTW–LUNA! LUNA! RAH-RAH-RAH!

No, I don’t think I could do it for even 20 minutes. I get a little naused watching that stuff on TV. I mean, the deep sea life forms are really very cool. But I can’t get past the pressure, the dark, the cold and the drowning thing. I don’t know why I don’t have the same fear of space.

[Tuckerfan]

@calm_kiwi

There are so many places, so many creatures and so many people on this planet to see, that seeing a rock that orbits Earth pales in insignificance.

We know next to nothing about one of the biggest creatures on Earth, the Collosal squid.

Most of us have little understanding of other cultures, religions and beliefs.

The geography of this planet is so mind boggling I can’t understand the urge to visit a dusty rock.

OK I can understand the urge “MUST GO HIGHER, MUST GO FASTER” etc but in my mind if you haven’t explored THIS planet then spending millions to visit the moon is …well a little bit wanky. It’s the moon! Sure it has a great view but it’s a great view of where you just left.

If we can magically whip a trillion dollars out of our ass to pay for Wallstreet’s screw ups, I think that we can manage, somehow, to do both. And no doubt, our economies would be in better shape for doing it, than with the bailout.

[SandyHook]

If I had had the chance to go the day after the Challenger blew up, I’d have taken in in a heart beat.

I might have peed all over myself, but I sure would have gone.

The Little Hook, Age 39 says if he ever wins a mega lottery that’s twenty million of it taken care of.

[Stauderhorse]

If the trip was free (and relatively safe)?

Hell friggin’ yes I’d go to the moon! How can you say no? If cost were involved, I’d probably be willing to spend up to $5000; anything more, while not unreasonable, is kind of an excessive amount for me (i.e. I couldn’t afford it).

[Mikkel]

If I had a little chance of surviving it, YES. It’s something I have wanted all my life.

[Cisco]

@calm_kiwi

There are so many places, so many creatures and so many people on this planet to see, that seeing a rock that orbits Earth pales in insignificance.

We know next to nothing about one of the biggest creatures on Earth, the Collosal squid.

Most of us have little understanding of other cultures, religions and beliefs.

The geography of this planet is so mind boggling I can’t understand the urge to visit a dusty rock.

OK I can understand the urge “MUST GO HIGHER, MUST GO FASTER” etc but in my mind if you haven’t explored THIS planet then spending millions to visit the moon is …well a little bit wanky. It’s the moon! Sure it has a great view but it’s a great view of where you just left.

I have been to 49 states, 11 countries, and 3 continents. I have seen countless nature and adventure documentaries, and read ~2 books a week for the last 20 years, mostly non-fiction --a great deal of them about our planet, and more than a few about its inhabitants, both human and otherwise. I would love to be able to explore the frontiers left on our world, but they don’t compare to seeing home, our fragile, Pale Blue Dot, from the vantage point of its daughter, Luna. And liftoff? Weightlessness en route? One-sixth Earth gravity to frolick in at your destination? Icing on the cake. Some of the best icing that can be imagined. Frankly I’m very offended at you dismissing the idea as “wanky”. You have no idea what the space program has done for you.

[Quartz]

Go? Hell yes!

[Baldwin]

@Q.E.D

But, you’d weight one-sixth less!

Make that five sixths less, or one sixth as much.

If I were really rich, and it were possible, I’d spend every cent I owned to go.

[OtakuLoki]

I would love to go to the moon, even using today’s technology, and Apollo-era risks. Having said that, I have to admit that I’m not sure I could go to the moon. I am a pretty strong acrophobe - I have no idea whether I’d be able to take free-fall.

@pbbth

I would not go to the moon, FWIW. It would be cool but it is too high risk. I also would not want to go to the bottom of the ocean, but if I had to pick between the two I would pick the watery grave as opposed to the space coffin.

OTOH, I have to say - I’d rather risk decompression than risk implosion. I don’t care how quick a death a catastrophic failure of a modern sub usually leads to - I couldn’t do it. And went surface, and avoided sub pay, because of that.

[Cisco]

@OtakuLoki

I would love to go to the moon, even using today’s technology, and Apollo-era risks. Having said that, I have to admit that I’m not sure I could go to the moon. I am a pretty strong acrophobe - I have no idea whether I’d be able to take free-fall.

You don’t feel like you’re falling in free-fall. It’s a feeling of weightlessness. Much more akin to swimming, I would guess.

[Spatial_Rift_47]

yesyesyesyesyesyesyes

[Magiver]

Pass.

• I don’t like G-forces so the ride would suck.

• I’m claustrophobic so that would suck.

• There’s no gravity in space so drinking would have to suck by it’s very nature.

• Space food makes me gassy so that would blow.

• I’ve been to the desert and frankly wasn’t impressed with dirt.

• I don’t like to golf.

• I can see more stars with a telescope on Earth.

• NASA ATV’s are slow and don’t have any place for beer.

So while it would be cool to see Earth from the Moon I don’t think the experience would be much fun unless the vehicle that gets me there looks something like the QE2.

Now if I could get a ride in an SR-71 and then spend the evening hanger flying it over steak and beer - woo hoo.