Depends on how despairing you’d expect yourself to be in that situation. The death of just my wife & kids would surely send me into the long dark night of the soul. But every other human? I don’t think I’d see the point in living with all that grief & loneliness.
You’d have time to go to the stars and see if you could get over it. I think your wife and kids would want you to have that opportunity. And if it’s not working out that way your grief will make your suicide easier.
In addition you’ll get to tell the aliens all about your family, so at least their memories will still exist. Maybe that doesn’t mean much when you’re all gone, but in this case there are only straws left to grasp at.
Plus maybe the aliens would have some sort of magic tech to rebuild the human race from your genetic material (since they have magical interstellar travel this seems likely to me). If nothing else, you could try and salvage what you can from the earth to be preserved by the aliens in their archives, museums or whatever.
I see it as a temporary setback for the human race, at worse.
The aliens should have the technology to clone me, and fingers crossed, allow me to safely genetically engineer diversity into my ‘offspring’.
I would feel sad about the people who died. I couldn’t care less about the species dying out.
Besides… outer space! Woo!
You seriously don’t care that all the species on earth died out?? :eek:
It’s not like you’d be alone. Lots of people. You can probably find some you’d like.
Rishathra rocks!
I’d take a few souvenirs from the pale blue spot, some flower seeds, Delphinum, Hollyhock, Honeysuckle. Maybe some tree seeds too so I can build a english country garden elsewhere in the universe.
But I’d be driving that space ship outa here like Sterling Archer!
I went with the great majority, cause, like, why not.
You did mention my hero sidekick is a she. Now if this is the porno version where she’s really hot and multi-orgasmic no matter how inept my efforts may be I’m changing my answer to, “Hell yes. And don’t even think about trying to dissuade me.”
This is a no-brainer: Up, up, and awaaaaaaayyyy!
(with a well-stocked iPod)
Towel? Check. Let’s go.
I’m a little confused as to what happened to The Druidess to allow me to go gallavanting around the multiverse in the first place, but assuming I am somehow single, then I’ll go for continuing the adventure with my space-faring pal.
I thought it just said humanity.
And no. I care that people are dead. I don’t care that no more people will be born.
If humanity was gone but the Earth remained alive, that would also be interesting.
The human race will not be any deader if I go, nor more alive if I stay. Let the adventure continue a little longer - at least long enough to find out where all the atmospheric carbon monoxide came from, if nothing else.
Oops, forgot that the hero friend is female, in which case i don’t care about the looks. If we’ve gotten along okay so far, then I change my vote to the second option, which is, keep traveling and remember suicide is possible if the loneliness of misunderstanding and being misunderstood gets to be too much.