if you had the chance to go into outer space, would you take it?

fuck space

no, i would find it too scary. I'm scared of flying, although I still fly despite this, so being in a rocket that's taking off would be terror central for me.

no i would not, why because of http://www.gamebooks.org/gallery/cyoa071.jpg

oh hell yes of course i would

i really think it would be a boring place to go and would take too long, so no

i hear its the place

i think i might go. it would probably change my life, you know perspective and all that bulshit

but i would miss my studio and my loved ones

Results 1 - 10 of about 95,200,000 for has anyone ever had sex in space.

i would miss gravity and air

if you had the chance to go into outer space, would you take it?

like a 'space tourist' situation - no need for training or conditioning beyond—http://hbmortgageoracle.files.wordpress.com/2009/02/challenger-explosion.jpg

I'M LIZZING

http://www.geocities.com/robo7070/kubrik/images/2001-stargate2.jpg

"My God, it's full of SPACE VAMPIRES!"

This seems like the kind of question where you are obligated to say yes, because you would be a fool to turn down such an opportunity, even if you weren't keen on it.

Like, "if someone gave you a $1000 cookie, would you eat it?" Even if you don't like cookies, when's the next time you'll get a chance to eat a $1000 cookie?

If you haven't read it, one of the endings to that space vampire book is you yourself become a space vampire, and from the book's description, it's pretty rad.

THANKS FOR THE SPOILERS ASSHOLE

i don't feel obligated to say yes, i think it would actually be stupid to go

you're stupid

have you thought of that

space is awesome--i would go

WHY though, there's nothing there. it's space.

planets
stars
space octopuses
your anus

I would probably take the $1000 cookie over space. I really like cookies tho.

I tricked you. The $1000 cookie is actually space.

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_mpBGa4P5jUo/RieceIqN-5I/AAAAAAAAARE/59xeCt4qEPQ/s400/space1999lunchbox2.jpg

L-R: Point, Counterpoint

oh and to spoil the choose your own adventure book more, the way being a vampire was described sounded like being on a roid high.

OK, looking at Space Vampires cover, the vampire doesn't need to breathe, so he can be in the open airlock ok, but what's with the kids? Are they vampire kids? And doesn't the background indicate that, technically, the vampire is up and out during the daytime? TOO MANY UNANSWERED QUESTIONS.

anyone who says no should just shoot themselves in the face

:(

(xxpost) according to the Daily Mail, they are feral vampire children committing knife crimes

er, and also on a note of realism, wouldn't that vampire be turned into a little pile of ashes by that huge frickin' sun behind him?

i was thinking about this last night and my first instinct was "nah, it's dangerous and would probably be really uncomfortable" and then i just told myself to quit being a puss, space is awesome and hardly anyone gets to go there

Like, "if someone gave you a $1000 cookie, would you eat it?" Even if you don't like cookies, when's the next time you'll get a chance to eat a $1000 cookie?

but the thought that someone might have invented a $1000 cookie makes me want to shiv a bitch?

i fucking love space - it is awesome and huge and gorgeous and an absolute beautiful mystery - but i would way rather they sent some more complicated probe out there than useless space-tourist me.

n/a inner monologue otm. the outdoors is dangerous too, probably shouldn't leave your apartment.

fuck that, i wanna go up there with a brew in one hand and my dick in the other

space the dopest frontier

well part of why it would suck is you'd have to be wearing a spacesuit--you could not have your dick in your hand even xp

id go if they guaranteed i wouldnt die - the safety record of people is space is right now not that good

i'm not that worried about it being dangerous i'd just rather be on earth is all

I would go but I wouldn't pay crazy money unless I had super-crazy money. I also wouldn't go with Russians.

I posit that the kind of people who would be willing to go to space don't care about death

Space travel has a pretty high death rate and just getting up there really stresses your body even if you have a safe trip, so it isn't all beer and skittles. Still, I'd be strongly tempted. Ain't nothing like it on earth.

Fuck yeah. Worth it just to experience a zero-g atmosphere.

Space accidents, either during operations or training for spaceflights, have killed 22 astronauts (five percent of all people who have been in space, two percent of individual spaceflights), and a much larger number of ground crew.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_accidents_and_incidents

you could not have your dick in your hand even xp

...and alcohol is banned in space

space vampire was dope. why has no one created online versions of the CYOA books??? i mean what have we been using the internet for all these years?

xxxp

how many times has tom hanks died

u can go zero g w/o space http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vomit_Comet

...and alcohol is banned in space

man space really does not know how to party.

but i would miss my studio and my loved ones

― Surmounter, Tuesday, March 31, 2009 10:43 AM (22 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

lol @ Ramzi thinking it's a permanent relo.

5% die who go into space.
100% die who don't go into space.
Odds are in your favor.

the thing is, space itself is the most terrifying part of it, and nobody actually dies IN space, they just die going to or coming back from that motherfucker

really motherfuck all of you i am so mad rn

it's funny cuz i was hella contemplatin this last week, like really seriously - i was lookin up SPACE DEATHS specifically

it's a thing, y'know

(xxxpost) yeah, there's no atmosphere...

i will bet money that russians have taken alcohol into space

They've taken birch branches into space so they can have Russian style saunas

anyone who says no should just shoot themselves in the face

― the most brazen explosion of clitoral lust in folk-metal history (cankles), Tuesday, March 31, 2009 12:54 PM (12 minutes ago) Bookmark

i wish i was in an introductory web design class so that i could bring 'space vampire' to life for my final project

There's a gaping hole in the Space Vampire ship, so rightfully the vampire and the two kids should be sucked out.

Vomit comets are like a half-minute of floating while trying not to puke. That's not fun. Floating around DisneyLand OuterSpace for a couple of days would be awes.

if there were cool things in space, they wouldn't call it "space"

they would name it after the cool things

i'd do it tomorrow, can't imagine it'd be like to look back on the planet

also guys a greater percentage of people that have ridden in planes or cars have died

u fukkin tools

i think you would be puking your guts out your first few hours of no gravity but i'm just guessing

stop ruining space, whiney

(actually maybe not, i didn't look it up)

xxxpost
good guess

I'm gonna disappoint you guys some more and tell you that the cover of that book largely misrepresents the contents.

Though there is a black chick in it.

one thing i would like to do is like those physics problems where your twin stays on earth and you go to space but you travel really fast and you come back and you're different ages. other than that no thanks.

do u have a twin

do you have a twin?
haha

Space is gonna do me good.

no but if i did xp

fuck yes. get me off this radioactive cop-ridden planet

420 kill a cop every day

cop shoot cop.......into space

space-cops

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/5/5a/StarCopsLogo.jpg/250px-StarCopsLogo.jpg

Space accidents, either during operations or training for spaceflights, have killed 22 astronauts (five percent of all people who have been in space, two percent of individual spaceflights)

this is not a high percentage - lower than fatal car accidents I bet

If we were going to another planet then I'd go, but otherwise no.

how about the moon or an asteroid or a comet

you're going to die anyways, you might as well die hurtling through space with your eyeballs popping out of your skull instead of crashing your kia through the plate-glass window of an H&R block

(those are your only two options)

lololol

I'm pretty sure there's nothing much to see on the moon, or on a comet or on an asteroid. Okay, I'm thinking exotic space babes, like in Star Trek.

i would love to crash into an H&R Block

yr right there'd be nothing to see EXCEPT FOR THE PLANET YOU NORMALLY LIVE ON

I'm pretty sure there's nothing much to see on the moon, or on a comet or on an asteroid.

You could you know, look at the ENTIRE EARTH in one fell swoop, i.e. all of humanity, but i guess that doesn't interest you.

haha xpost

nothin to see here, move along

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/0903/tarantula2_hst.jpg

lunar mud volcanoes are so boring

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/0903/mudvolcano_hirise.jpg

wtf, 5% of people who travel in cars die in car accidents? how retarded can you be.

lower than fatal car accidents I bet

The stats indicated one death for every 50 space flights taken. I will take that bet, Shakey.

i've seen so many movies/tv shows where people are in space looking at the earth in awe that i feel like i've done it already.

Hey what does space smell like?

xpost i thought the same thing about the grand canyon. . . until i saw the grand canyon live and in person

*yawn*

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/0903/sunprom2_soho.jpg

i would go if i could go w/my friends

it doesn't smell, it's space. it smells like the inside of your sweaty spacesuit anyway xp

i mean i would probably go anyway, but i don't know if i'd be that enthusiastic about getting in the way of a bunch of astronauts trying to do their job by going "ooh look" at everything

would you really get to see shit like that if you went into space, shakey (assuming those are telescope pictures)?

what do u think astronauts do all day? they just sit up there flippin switches and growin beards

you could not see the sun like that from space anyway unless you wanted to vaporize xp

space binoculars

no, you would float around in zero gravity and marvel at the view of the PLANET OUTSIDE YOUR WINDOW

wtf, 5% of people who travel in cars die in car accidents? how retarded can you be.

car accidents kill other people besides those travelling in cars tho... I dunno, find me some statistics

Space accidents, either during operations or training for spaceflights, have killed 22 astronauts (five percent of all people who have been in space, two percent of individual spaceflights)

this is not a high percentage - lower than fatal car accidents I bet

It's lower than the fatal occupational injury rate for a lot of occupations, and significantly lower than the FOI rate for construction workers and truck drivers.

Honestly, standing on the moon looking at the earth, hmmm, doesn't really appeal that much. I'd be too worried about burning up on re-entry.

"the earth is already in space"

http://www.skullcandy.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/blogkillahpriest_galaga_tee.jpg

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c0/Bassnasa.jpg

it doesn't smell, it's space.

RONG
http://www.galacticawatercooler.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/02/post-smelloscope.jpg

Honestly, standing on the moon looking at the earth, hmmm, doesn't really appeal that much. I'd be too worried about burning up on re-entry.

this is pretty sad

i just looked. the percentage of ppl killed in car accidents is like 0.0005 or less. still: cars have killed 20 MILLION people in a hundred years, so

You could you know, look at the ENTIRE EARTH in one fell swoop, i.e. all of humanity, but i guess that doesn't interest you.

― Mr. Que, Tuesday, March 31, 2009 2:23 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

uh no u could not think abt it que jeez

haha

saying 'no' to this is a solid gold challop, one of the greatest

uh no u could not think abt it que jeez

space binoculars

― Mr. Que, Tuesday, March 31, 2009 6:29 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

if you had the chance to look at pictures of space on the internet, would you take it?

and a big mirror

hey has anyone encountered this question when settling who should pay for the tab at a restaurant?
apparently if you answer no, then the guy who asked pays because apparently, you have given up something
and so getting free food is your compensation for not theoretically going into space.

(this only works once on each person, but I guess there's a rotating list of hypotheticals)

it's not a challop, it's a faggop

But I ain't stopping anyone else from going into space. We all gotta go one day.

hey has anyone encountered this question when settling who should pay for the tab at a restaurant?
apparently if you answer no, then the guy who asked pays because apparently, you have given up something
and so getting free food is your compensation for not theoretically going into space.

(this only works once on each person, but I guess there's a rotating list of hypotheticals)

― Philip Nunez, Tuesday, March 31, 2009 1:32 PM (40 seconds ago) Bookmark

wtf r u on about

if you had the chance to look at pictures of space on the internet, would you take it?

are you man enough to take it?

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3218/2379117836_6f6d44be82.jpg

http://spiritualoasis.files.wordpress.com/2006/10/earth-from-space-western.jpg

i guess i'm more just thinking of the big picture i mean i'd love to float around and look at shit but the trip there and back would totally suck and i would just get bored

http://www.petsinuniform.com/images/portland/astro_dog2.jpg

if i went to space i would insist on going to the moon def

space shuttles and stations kind of remind me of hospitals. they don't seem like v. comfortable places to be.

"wtf r u on about"

apparently you have never been asked if you would go to space as a test to see if you should get a free meal out of pity.

yes i would insist also on a luxury spacecraft

i pity the ppl who dont want to ride in space because they are dead inside

do you think it gets sweaty and gross inside a space suit?

we don't need your pity, "Lamp"

Honestly, standing on the moon looking at the earth, hmmm, doesn't really appeal that much. I'd be too worried about burning up on re-entry.

Once I did that, I could give fuck all if the ship burned up on the way back.

that's some pretty strong drive you've got there.

i think if i was in space i would spent a lot of time worrying about my muscles atrophying and my bones losing density and whether i would burn up on re-entry.

on the other hand, astronaut ice cream and tang. also, i'm thirsty.

mmmm space tang

in all seriousness peoples assumption of and desire for peak experience associated w/going to some place is pretty pitiful - ie top mt everest - especially when they die trying

oh another thing that sucks about space is this http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn16045-purified-urine-to-be-astronauts-drinking-water.html?DCMP=OTC-rss&nsref=space-shuttle

if there's anything that battlestar galactica has taught us it's that space sucks and that if you are in space you should try to not be in space.

we don't need your pity, "Lamp"

right thats okay all u need is a "soul" whining about the costs of this incredible experience like "oh its boring" or "oh i have to wear a spacesuit" or "oh theres a minor chance that i will die a horrible fiery death a million miles from anyone i love" like those are anything compared to the unfathomable beauty and spectacle of space

I'd do this like a shot.

xpost umm have you been there or are you just a hardcore nova watcher?

"oh no, i have to drink recycled urine"

like those are anything compared to the unfathomable beauty and spectacle of space

it's pretty ironic that your counterargument involves planetarium narration cliches like this that are presumably based on seeing PICTURES taken from space and the assumption that it is better actually being there (i.e. seeing from inside a shuttle or a gigantic spacesuit or something).

i mean maybe it is, maybe it is, i have no idea how you would know.

i guess i'm more just thinking of the big picture i mean i'd love to float around and look at shit but the trip there and back would totally suck and i would just get bored

― goaty (harbl), Tuesday, March 31, 2009 2:34 PM (59 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

if being strapped to the largest rockets in the history of the world (which in turn are strapped to an 800-ton tank of liquid oxygen and liquid hydrogen) and having them propel you 100+ miles into the uppermost layer of the atmosphere is something that would literally 'bore' you, then you deserve to be murdered. i wish there was a kinder solution, but that's just how it is.

"you deserve to be murdered"?
can't you pay for his meal instead?

i mean maybe it is, maybe it is, i have no idea how you would know.

people who have been to space have reported back ya know

if being strapped to the largest rockets in the history of the world (which in turn are strapped to an 800-ton tank of liquid oxygen and liquid hydrogen) and having them propel you 100+ miles into the uppermost layer of the atmosphere is something that would literally 'bore' you, then you deserve to be murdered

also this haha

i would probably sleep through it

I'd wake up back on earth and be all pissed

people who have been to space have reported back ya know

yeah, but what are they going to say, "yeah, it was okay. a little anticlimactic, you know?" after millions of dollars & hopes & dreams have been spent to get them there.

were you "space is boring" people bored the first time you rode in a car, or flew in a plane, or saw the ocean, or had sex?

I'm sure there would be some boring/annoying parts to it but there's no way I could turn this down.

http://imagecache2.allposters.com/images/pic/MMPO/503299~Rocketman-Posters.jpg

^cankles

yeah, but what are they going to say, "yeah, it was okay. a little anticlimactic, you know?" after millions of dollars & hopes & dreams have been spent to get them there.

yes obviously those astronauts/cosmonauts are all liars

yeah i heard the moon landing was all fake

in all seriousness peoples assumption of and desire for peak experience associated w/going to some place is pretty pitiful - ie top mt everest - especially when they die trying

yes it's much more respectable to not try to do things you really wanna do and just watch Netflix and die from heart disease.

The quickest stat I could find was "cars average 22.5 fatalities per 100,000 license holders per year". OK. I can work with that.

To make up for deficiencies in this statistic, I shall assume that for every 22.5 fatalities to drivers, there are an additional 477.5 fatalities to passengers and pedestrians, making a nice round 500 traffic deaths per 100,000 drivers per year. That ought to provide enough overkill for good measure. I am feeling generous today.

Put another way, that assumes one traffic death per 200 licensed drivers per year.

In order for that fatality rate to exceed the rate of one death per fifty trips in space, we must assume that all licensed drivers average fewer than 0.25 trips per year.

Obviously this assumption is absurd and Shakey loses the bet.

were you "space is boring" people bored the first time you rode in a car, or flew in a plane, or saw the ocean, or had sex?

― This House is a Prison on Planet Bullshit (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, March 31, 2009 2:55 PM (20 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

lol @ space is like sex - the last rhetorical refuge for the truly miserable

space is sex=sex is space

like those are anything compared to the unfathomable beauty and spectacle of space

but if you are a space tourist you won't get to see this! ok you will get to see earth from space and that is wicked awesome cool but all the amazing pictures of space that I love so much are taken of things a kazillion light years away that even proper astronauts never get to see with the naked eye.

xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxpost

obligated = obliged?

then you have to say he equated sex with riding in a car moran

but I'm not miserable I'm EXCITED! Seems to me the miserable folks are you "lolz everything is boring, why waste the time and energy on this, ooh look COPS is on..." people

people who have been to space have reported back ya know

these people had also spent large portions of their adult lives trying to go into space. tbh it probably is really really breathtaking and great but i think there are relevant concerns such that the "no space" crowd is not worthy of like total scorn.

yeah, but what are they going to say, "yeah, it was okay. a little anticlimactic, you know?" after millions of dollars & hopes & dreams have been spent to get them there.

yeah, this. actually a friend of mine made a short film about a guy who came back from space and thought it was boring.

yes it's much more respectable to not try to do things you really wanna do and just watch Netflix and die from heart disease.

― hope this helps (Granny Dainger), Tuesday, March 31, 2009 2:56 PM (18 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

yr view of what not going to space constitutes is quite telling - my point stands

i honestly don't think anyone who is saying "traveling in space is boring" really means it guys, come on.

Obviously this assumption is absurd and Shakey loses the bet.

fair enough. Odds of dying still seem pretty low to me

i heard this astronaut speak at a corporate thing and he was basically a huge dick. all acting like we'd never truly know or test ourselves because we can't go to space, like him. "i'm sure you're all very smart people, but have you ever had to think so hard that you're pouring sweat?" also he was a republican. a space republican.

xp

hey, is a spacewalk included in this hypothetical? cuz, yeah, looking out a porthole might not sound that exciting, but floating around outside the ship in a big ass space suit is basically the most wonderous ass thing u can imagine

no that was not climbing everest. totally different.

he probably was a dick before he went into space

ffs not wanting to go into space should not result in a blanket statement about someone.

yes it should fuk u

ice cram tell me you've never watched netflix and won't die of heart disease.

i love this silly-ass thread

fuck yes.

To avoid toilet breaks during the long drive to Orlando, Capt Nowak is alleged to have worn an adult nappy - such as astronauts wear during shuttle launches and landings - and she disguised herself with a wig, dark glasses and a trench coat.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/6335947.stm

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/62/Sts114_033.jpg

O_O

hey you know what fuck it I'm glad some of you don't wanna go into space - more space for the rest of us

yes it should u pussy

xposts

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/88/Astronaut-EVA.jpg

how is this not BLOWING YOUR FUCKING MIND

cuz hey who needs some killjoy bogarting the oxygen

Obv, we must conclude that visiting space causes perfectly fine humans to become dickwads, for reasons no one understands.

ice cram tell me you've never watched netflix and won't die of heart disease.

― hope this helps (Granny Dainger), Tuesday, March 31, 2009 3:01 PM (19 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

you couldve described non outer space experience as anything but thats what u chose - not an uncommon tic w/glib escapists

i'm not sure which is funnier, spacenerds taking the challop-bait or ppl getting butthurt that they're being belittled for not wanting to go to space

Obv, we must conclude that visiting space causes perfectly fine humans to become dickwads, for reasons no one understands.

― Aimless, Tuesday, March 31, 2009 2:04 PM (49 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

duh they obviously become space vampires, everyone knows space vampires are total dicks

would you like to travel to a dimension where there are dinosaurs and you could see one?

"omg fuck yes we are talking about DINOSAURS"
"no way they would probably eat me and besides think of the diseases"
"how is a dinosaur any more wondrous than a cat or lowly insect in yr bedroom" <---- this one is ice cram

"ehh, dinosaurs would put me to sleep"

"i've seen dinosaurs on TV my whole life, why do I need to see one in person?"

http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n276/havasuboy/dinosaurs_earl_baby.jpg

i'd just worry if the dimension-traveling machine would break

the main thing space nuts are failing to think through is that in order to go there you will have to be there - and you hate you

it's pretty ironic that your counterargument involves planetarium narration cliches like this that are presumably based on seeing PICTURES taken from space and the assumption that it is better actually being there (i.e. seeing from inside a shuttle or a gigantic spacesuit or something)

well okay im resorting to cliches abt this experience because words cant really capture the totality of even PICTURES of space and yes im assuming that being there will be like scientific notations more rad than just watching nova (which is dope btw) or reading the greatest adventure and dreaming my childish dreams of the stars

for me its like mr que was saying u can see pictures and movies of the grand canyon but then u go there its so vast and incalculable or like when friends and i went sailing through lake superior - even if what u see isnt some beautiful photo of nature type thing experiencing it is on another level and fuck yes id love to experience space just being **** out there ****

http://sm.mdacorporation.com/images/srms/lowres/096x_hub.jpg

DUHHHH WERE CANKLES AND SHAKEY MO! SPACE IS SO AWESOME! LIKE FLIGHT OF THE NAVIGATOR! OH MAN! DOOOOYYYYYY! I'M FLOATING! I'M SO DUMB AND THIS IS NOT BORING! YAY! ITS JUST LIKE STARGATE! YAYYYY!

ice cream the only place u wanna travel 2 is larry bird's taint

lmao leave it 2 tha pros whiney

i'd just worry if the dimension-traveling machine would break

― i like to fart and i am crazy (gbx), Tuesday, March 31, 2009 3:08 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

so 1/50 are acceptable odds of death for u - whats not 1/10 1/2 1/1

anyone who says no should just shoot themselves in the face

― the most brazen explosion of clitoral lust in folk-metal history (cankles), Tuesday, March 31, 2009 5:54 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Stargate is fucking awful how dare you Whiney

i mean seriously if you have no interest in a free ticket to do the greatest thing man has ever done you might as well as just lie down on the freeway and wait for death

DUHHHH WERE CANKLES AND SHAKEY MO! SPACE IS SO AWESOME! LIKE FLIGHT OF THE NAVIGATOR! OH MAN! DOOOOYYYYYY! I'M FLOATING! I'M SO DUMB AND THIS IS NOT BORING! YAY! ITS JUST LIKE STARGATE! YAYYYY!

You left out the part where we are giving you the finger - FROM SPACE

what are acceptable odds for ~living~

if u really think going to space is the greatest thing man has ever done you might as well as just lie down on the freeway and wait for death

space /= living

its true look it up

btw u guys did u know were already in space ;)

someone already said that

greatest thing man has ever done

Wha?

space is emptiness, btw

space-haters never would have migrated from africa = human race extinction 50,000 years ago.

http://www.lifthill.com/images/2007/12/spaceship-earth-sign-400.jpg

http://www.cocs.com/poser/gallery/SpaceshipEarthNight.jpg

space-haters never would have evolved out of the primordial muck

You left out the part where we are giving you the finger - FROM SPACE

― This House is a Prison on Planet Bullshit (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, March 31, 2009 3:13 PM (46 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

I won't leave out the part where you guys are so drunk on Tang and shitting in a suit and pretending you're Captain Kirk that us earthlings are stealing your girlfriends. Have fun at the science fair, nerdlingers!

i'll wait until spaceships have food replicators and saab-like interiors, thx

saying no to space = saying no to life

s1ocki OTM about the "greatest thing man has ever done" - seems perfectly obvious to me. Humanity put itself into a wholly foreign environment through sheer force of will - its the equivalent of evolution

yah whiney cuz if theres one things girls are known for its leaving their astronaut boyfriends for ohsnap.jpg

space-haters never would have migrated from africa = human race extinction 50,000 years ago.

― bnw, Tuesday, March 31, 2009 3:15 PM (17 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

see now one of these things constitutes actual bravery and vision - the other involves being strapped into a machine and hoping u have a revelatory experience

xxp if by "evolution" you mean "boringoltion"

So, this poll started 2 hours ago, and already has 200 messages?

Way to go.

migrating from africa = moving away from yr parents over and over and over

ice cr?m have you eaten space ice cram?

I mean man was not designed to survive in space the same way a fish is not designed to survive on dry land, and yet through the dedication of massive amounts of resources and ingenuity and creativity, humanity figured out a way to do it and did it. Its certainly the most impressive scientific feat in the history of humanity.

anyone who says no should just shoot themselves in the face

― the most brazen explosion of clitoral lust in folk-metal history (cankles), Tuesday, March 31, 2009 12:54 PM (12 minutes ago) Bookmark

― i like to fart and i am crazy (gbx), Tuesday, March 31, 2009 1:09 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

I won't leave out the part where you guys are so drunk on Tang and shitting in a suit and pretending you're Captain Kirk that us earthlings are stealing your girlfriends. Have fun at the science fair, nerdlingers!

― Whiney G. Weingarten, Tuesday, March 31, 2009 7:16 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

have fun eating a low-cal sub in a subway franchise while i am partying IN A SPACESHIP IN SPACE

life choices

Now my helmet's on, you can't tell me I'm not in space
With the national guard united states enterprise

i mean at the very very least, despite having the most awesome experience of all time, you have the best bar/party story ever and you will definitely get laid way more

see now one of these things constitutes actual bravery and vision - the other involves being strapped into a machine and hoping u have a revelatory experience

yeah Yuri Gagarin just climbed into a bucket and away he went! No vision or bravery there, no sir.

i'm not going in space until they can put a subway sandwich in a tube

ice cr?m have you eaten space ice cram?

― Whiney G. Weingarten, Tuesday, March 31, 2009 3:20 PM (2 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

yes whiney its discusting - yesterday i had lychee and black sesame ice creams from the chinatown ice cream factory which is completely better than anything in space

yuri gaygarin

yes food blogging is better than getting to ride in a spaceship

space bløgging

"mm this pistachio ice cram is delicious, i could be in space right now, seeing beautiful wonders and magical galaxies, but nahh, this frozen ball of nut-flavored ice is all i need in this life"

riding in a spaceship would prob be fun - i just wouldnt want to be in space w/anyone who thinks its going to be gracious! the best thing ever - people should really deal w/their personal issues before going to space imo

wherever u go there u (a lonely space nerd) are

ya, everyone should go to therapy until they sufficiently have all hopes and dreams beaten out of them - then they can do something fun

how come you space-lovers are messing around on the internet instead of living lives of great hardship & reward

do you ever feel like some people are fronting with this whole OMG I WOULD NEVAR GO INTO SPACE IT'S SO BORING AND POINTLESS shit nowadays

what if we found a pistachio planet in space O_O

how come you space-lovers are messing around on the internet instead of living lives of great hardship & reward

― Ømår Littel (Jordan), Tuesday, March 31, 2009 3:26 PM (13 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Truth Rocket

how come you space-lovers are messing around on the internet instead of living lives of great hardship & reward

fyi: i'm posting from Antarctica

I LIVE MY LIFE TO DISCOVER ALL THE WONDERS AND INEFFABLE FEELINGS OF THE WORLD ONCE IM DONE REFRESHING THE FRANKENSTEIN DANCE THREAD

trust me, dealing with you guys is a great hardship, dont know about the reward tho

riding in a spaceship would prob be fun - i just wouldnt want to be in space w/anyone who thinks its going to be gracious! the best thing ever - people should really deal w/their personal issues before going to space imo

― ice cr?m, Tuesday, March 31, 2009 2:25 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark

no u r right, enthusiasm is the last refuge of those unwilling to face reality

are you seriously shitting on us for expressing the desire to do something awesome because we're not constantly being 100% awesome and actually have mundane lives to live - i mean seriously, why not just lie down on the freeway if any sort of aspiration at all depresses you that much

fyi: i'm posting from Antarctica

o snap this is true, isn't it

no he is shittin on us because it is educational

there's a lot of people suggesting other people kill themselves in this thread

why can't we all join hands and be brothers... IN SPACE

inability to differentiate enthusiasm from desperation is im sure a symptom of something

suggest suicide button

u kno what ice cram was right i ~should~ come to grips with ***life as it really is*** instead of wasting my time thinkin about how dope space is and why it might be rad to go there for free hypothetically

o snap this is true, isn't it

fyi: someone stole my desk chair, i am using a couple of frozen penguins to sit at my desk

is it cold

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_O5gIbeIVSlw/SHTjAuoThWI/AAAAAAAADUs/2x-2fecLam4/s400/BillWray%2B-%2Bspace.jpg

l-r, cankles, shakey mo

inability to differentiate enthusiasm from desperation is im sure a symptom of something

― ice cr?m, Tuesday, March 31, 2009 7:30 PM (39 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

do you sit around nightclubs laughing at how desperate and pathetic all the people pretending to have fun on the dancefloor are

see now one of these things constitutes actual bravery and vision - the other involves being strapped into a machine and hoping u have a revelatory experience

― ice cr?m, Tuesday, March 31, 2009 3:18 PM (7 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

it's pretty cold today, here at McMurdo

u kno what ice cram was right i ~should~ come to grips with ***life as it really is*** instead of wasting my time thinkin about how dope space is and why it might be rad to go there for free hypothetically

― i like to fart and i am crazy (gbx), Tuesday, March 31, 2009 3:31 PM (5 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

hey i said id go to space for free if it was safer - its just the assumption that itd be 0mg the most amzing experience ever and somehow constitute real living and the corresponding freak out when someone questions that premise and its motivation is interesting

riding in a spaceship would prob be fun - i just wouldnt want to be in space w/anyone who thinks its going to be gracious! the best thing ever - people should really deal w/their personal issues before going to space imo

my only issues is that im not rocketing upwards to the heavens in fact i think that ppl who are unwilling to experience this are the ones with crippling self-hatred why wouldnt u let yrself do something so rad????

dope i hope yr stayin warm

my ass is really cold for some reason

space would be awesome but so awesome that i wouldn't want to go today, i'd want to go when i was like 90 or something, because i imagine every other goal would pale in comparison (with the possible exception of a kittinger jump from a balloon 120k ft up)

inability to differentiate enthusiasm from desperation is im sure a symptom of something

― ice cr?m, Tuesday, March 31, 2009 7:30 PM (39 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

do you sit around nightclubs laughing at how desperate and pathetic all the people pretending to have fun on the dancefloor are

― s1ocki, Tuesday, March 31, 2009 3:32 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

i love dancing - but ud have to be blind to not see parting as sometimes desperate - also i will admit to laughing at people in nightclubs before - tho not always while seated - what is it space is going to do for u anyway skloki

(with the possible exception of a kittinger jump from a balloon 120k ft up)

^^^^ would rather do this, actually

it would be more crazy awesome probably

u would also have to be blind to not see strongly held opinions about the dopeness of space as mostly enthusiasm for lyfe and instead as desperation

http://www.thewellers.com/twiki/vorvon3.jpghttp://www.tepg.se/titles/%5BSeries%5DBuck%20Rogers%201x14%20Space%20Vampire_03.jpghttp://img4.imageshack.us/img4/4832/dracula3000movieposter.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v486/DonkeyPuncherJ/AstronautJones.jpg

no when people are trying really hard for awesomeness thats desperation - i mean its a natural part of life no big deal - true dopeness arises out of relaxation and discipline and can not be grasped or quantified

zen dopeness

no when people are trying really hard for awesomeness thats desperation - i mean its a natural part of life no big deal - true dopeness arises out of relaxation and discipline and can not be grasped or quantified

― ice cr?m, Tuesday, March 31, 2009 3:43 PM (40 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

u lost, dogg... pack it in, mb next time my mans

itt icey dispenses bullshit

my only issues is that im not rocketing upwards to the heavens in fact i think that ppl who are unwilling to experience this are the ones with crippling self-hatred why wouldnt u let yrself do something so rad????

it is the assumption that it is so rad that it is part of the problem here.

space isn't the grand canyon. i can breathe on my own and "experience" the fucking grand canyon.

hey space-going motherfuckers--how many of u guys want to climb everest?

too expensive

not high up enough

too high

xp

too much effort, days to get to 29k ft unlike minutes w/o effort to get 200 miles

but y there are mountains id like to climb

i kind of want to climb everest - rock climbing is pretty rad itself and like one of the best times of my lyfe the closest i ever got to zen dopeness was sailing the great lakes one summer

i read into thin air and its like im supposed to care abt these fools killing themselves when they have no appreciation for their own lives

what do some fukkin lakes have to do with mountains OR space

i read into thin air and its like im supposed to care abt these fools killing themselves when they have no appreciation for their own lives

― ice cr?m, Tuesday, March 31, 2009 2:49 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark

now u know how i feel when i read about ppl driving to work and gettin in accidents

well the isolating sense of just being alone w/nature and the grand landscape of rocks and pines and the effort required into keeping alive and going seems like the closest ive been in my lyfe to being in space or the top of a mountain maybe it isnt the best comparison idk as cad pointed out ive never been to space

the everest people had jobs to cause they had to pay like $1m just to drag themselves up some mountain - but anyway work is good and wholesome and pretty much everyone who doesnt have a pile of money handed to them has to do it

I would not to this because I'm scared enough of reg flying that I have to dope myself up with tranqs beforehand. That said, I'd be mad as hell at myself for being such a wimp because it's space and it's free and it seems like it would be crazy to pass up.

did u know that walking up a mountain is work

hmmm... it really makes u think...

I've been. It is overrated.

well the isolating sense of just being alone w/nature and the grand landscape of rocks and pines and the effort required into keeping alive and going seems like the closest ive been in my lyfe to being in space or the top of a mountain maybe it isnt the best comparison idk as cad pointed out ive never been to space

the big difference between the two is it just feels great to be outside in the woods and the fresh air, while it doesn't seem like space would be very sensual aside from what you see (and everest would just be hellish).

walking up a mountain is fine - i enjoy it from time to time myself - walking up everest is just sort of crazy and stupid

lol lamp i was waiting for you to bust an "i have been to space btw" on me.

so is drinking soda and smoking cigarettes

space is like walking up a mountain--only there are no sherpas in space, nor are there space yaks that we know of

but u know ppl will be ppl

u should climb up stone mountain it is basically the confederate mt rushmore

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/ff/StoneMountain.jpg

it doesn't seem like space would be very sensual aside from what you see

but what you see would be fucking space and therefore ridiculously awesome and mind blowing!

suicide will be the undoing of mankind's fascination with space, I think. once we all start living in space stations, going for a spacewalk and taking your helmet off will become the new 'filling your pockets with rocks and wading into a river.' pretty soon spacewalking will be outlawed, and all portholes and entrances (with the exception of heavily guarded loading docks) will be sealed shut "for the welfare of the residents."

also, due to government limits on the number of space stations allowed in orbit, developers will weld dozens of space stations together ("technically it's only one station, officer!") creating ugly, congested, humongous stacks of high-rent apartments. living in space will be like living in the Kowloon Walled City, only with less space and absolutely no sunlight. ironically, the suicide rate will skyrocket as residents go mad from living in what are essentially floating prisons. I wouldn't wish that fate on anyone — not even those of you who were naive enough to vote yes.

welcome back, tombot

see joe, THAT'S how it's done

trolling 101

school's... in session *flips on some shades*

for the record, I'm not a raging misanthrope

jordan is only into sensual destinations like this

http://www.indianasbartercompany.com/Pictures/Sybaris_3.jpg

^ (not in space)

pshaw i hav totally successfully trolled the shit out of this thread - best part is its all true - bow down

i think you may have lost it around the "true dopeness" post tbh

http://i43.tinypic.com/dggkra.jpg

i am so high above you, in space, there's no way i could bow low enough to bow to you icey

actually n/a i'm pretty sure that's an actual interior photo of apollo 10 (pictured here)

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/47/140452405_0f24b6b6a3.jpg

que if you are really in space get the hell off ilx

start looking at stuff already jeez

i'm bored

anyway for my next attack on the impoverished adrenaline junkie mindset i would like to point out who wants to hang out w/someone who would rather be bungee jumping - go do bungee jumping then - also once theyre drunk theyll prob try to get everyone to do something "awesome" because theyre incapable of just enjoying themselves

http://weblogs.variety.com/photos/uncategorized/2007/07/18/howmetnp_2.jpg

people should really deal w/their personal issues before going to space imo

congrats, quite possibly the doushiest post ever made on the internet

douchey, too

ice craem, who's to say that bungee jumpers and mountain climbers can't appreciate the simple things in life? I mean, if I returned from a life-threatening, fast-paced adventure, home life would suddenly seem awfully welcoming and cozy to me, and I'd actually gain some appreciation for the security and predictability of day-to-day living.

for every restless, adrenaline-addicted nutjob who wants to go skydiving or whitewater rafting every fucking day of the week, there are lots of people who indulge themselves with thrill rides every once in a while, not because they can't otherwise enjoy themselves, but because they value the contrast between everyday pleasures and rare thrills. so think of bungee jumping as a way to complement, rather than replace, the experience of chilling out and having a few beers with friends.

guys if icey doesnt want to go to space who cares we need someone to stay on earth and age while we all stay young and look fab

i said id go to space i just dont want to die jeez

aw 2 late dude i already sent out all my space invites

best bit of awes thread: "my fucking shitting mind is blown (slight return)"

btw unregistered tl;dr - dg read more internet

my graphomania is really getting out of hand :(

were you "space is boring" people bored the first time you rode in a car, or flew in a plane, or saw the ocean, or had sex?

― This House is a Prison on Planet Bullshit (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, March 31, 2009 2:55 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

this is like the stupidest thing i've ever read it just defies logic

guys if icey doesnt want to go to space who cares we need someone to stay on earth and age while we all stay young and look fab

http://www.philosophyblog.com.au/userimages/user1863_1158464816.jpg

so the girl twin = us and the boy twin = ice craem, right? flying into the clock is the only part I really can't get my mind around.

i dont remember riding in a car the first time

the first time i was on a plane i was pretty bored

i dont remember seeing the ocean for the first time

the first time i had sex i was pretty bored--BUT YOUR MOM WASNT

so the girl twin = us and the boy twin = ice craem, right? flying into the clock is the only part I really can't get my mind around.

― bigstatusbrothers (unregistered), Tuesday, March 31, 2009 4:39 PM (12 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

also that spaceship is pretty dum lookin

extremely tiny penises on sex partners are pretty engrossing

welcome to the planet zing

extremely tiny penises on sex partners are pretty engrossing

i remember the first time i had sex in the backseat of a car stowed on a cargo jet that crashed into the ocean it was okay but nothing compared to blogging or listening to animal collective

http://www.snorgtees.com/images/ILoveLamp_F_Fullpic_3.jpg

strangely appropriate pic

her mouth is the gateway to the cosmos iirc

lol

wow dude

space is dope imo

I would go to space in one (1) heartbeat. Transcendence aside, it would be fun.

I want to piss in a hot suit

― WmC, Tuesday, March 31, 2009 4:56 PM (7 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

just get stoned and go to a planetarium

her mouth is the gateway to the cosmos iirc

― Zayatte Mondatta (country matters), Tuesday, March 31, 2009 8:45 PM (31 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

great use of iirc

i learned everything from ilx's older brother and sister in acronym usage - hoos and roxy

however if i went to space i wd pick i love crickets triple pillar of chill as my surrogate space fam - it wd be awes so awes and we would not even notice we were in space

louis every time u post on i love cricket ur basically in space

if space had a bløg then it would comprehensively document its fluctuating beard length i know this

space beard

no, i would find it too scary. I'm scared of flying, although I still fly despite this, so being in a rocket that's taking off would be terror central for me.

― Blackout Crew are the Beatles of donk (jim), Tuesday, March 31, 2009 1:36 PM (9 hours ago)

otm

of course i would. i got an aerospace engineering degree for a reason.

I'm not even a big space nerd and I'd absolutely do it. I still think flying in a plane is the most amazing thing ever.

I also always wanted to come up with some sort of heated, pressurized suit that would let me just stroll up Everest all casual-like past all the suckers who need weeks and sherpas to do it.

yeah, i've probably been on a hundred flights in my life and takeoff/landing is still something that excites me

I'd just let it slip..

but i would miss my studio and my loved ones

Yes yes, we all miss our loved ones and gasses.

I would only go to space if I could have sex in zero gravity, like James Bond in Moonraker. That's what they invented space for, right?

Yes to this, i don't understand people saying no, they're making me angry.

Who would've thought space would prove to be so divisive? I thought we'd all be...

...and space sisters, of course!

> if you had the chance to go into outer space, would you take it?

can i use the american toilet? or am i stuck with the russian one?

Yes to this, i don't understand people saying no, they're making me angry.

― Ant Attack.. (Ste), Wednesday, April 1, 2009 7:15 PM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

^^^^

i mean even if it is boring or uncomfortable or whatever, you're not even a little bit curious about what our planet - the entire huge and vast place that we live and die in - looks like from the outside?

when the cards are down and the chips are counted who the fuck wants to tbe the guy who says "oh ya, i could've gone to space, ya, for free and with like no hassle, but i said no - looked a bit uncomfortable"

not me

i want to be the guy that says, "royal flush" and takes all the chips

because im assuming were at a casino of some kind?

everybody who said no should be fired into space imo

because im assuming were at a casino of some kind?

― rip dom passantino 3/5/09 never forget (max), Wednesday, April 1, 2009 1:54 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

maybe we all are; maybe life can be compared to a casino, that's what i'm saying.

http://www.myexpression.com/SysImages/PartyThemeEvent/HostCasinoNight.jpg

well i hope i win

OIC, so the earth is Las Vegas and going into space is like wandering into the desert. You'll be surrounded by nothingness, but your old familiar place will over there in the distance looking all bright and glaring and kitschy. The mob loves it too, cuz no one can hear you scream.

I posit that the kind of people who would be willing to go to space don't care about death

seems like as good a place to die as any.

would totally wander in a desert, fear of dehydration and heat stroke is holding too many back in our modern lives.

well i hope i win

― rip dom passantino 3/5/09 never forget (max), Wednesday, April 1, 2009 2:03 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

good attitude :)

i think some people have misread this thread title as "if you had the change to go into town on the bus, would you take it?

AWESOME would love to see what my home looked like FROM A BUS

change was a type, but somehow it works

type was a typo

I can show you what it would look like FROM AN AMBULANCE if you like. xxp.

a SPACE AMBULANCE that is

a spambulance

have never seen my house from a bus, it's off the bus route.

i am already in space always

i have never seen my house from a bus because to ride the bus is to begin the downward spiral which inevitably leads to self loathing space lust

why get your hopes up

it's grand for those that have the option

sadly if a lonely ilx space nerd and i went in a spaceship to space only i would be able to enjoy it - he so overwhelmed w/anticipation of a transformative experience - his mind racing w/fever dreams of someday meeting a credulous woman he could impress w/his incredible space narrative - he is so agitated when he looks out the space window he sees only his own vibrating neurosis looking back - i feel great pity for this creature as i drink my gin and tang gazing out at our lovely blue planet

what?

in space, no-one can hear ice cr?m

hey dude try saying the exact same thing another 50 times and maybe people will start agreeing with you

sadly if a lonely ilx space nerd and i went in a spaceship to space only i would be able to enjoy it - he so overwhelmed w/anticipation of a transformative experience - his mind racing w/fever dreams of someday meeting a credulous woman he could impress w/his incredible space narrative - he is so agitated when he looks out the space window he sees only his own vibrating neurosis looking back - i feel great pity for this creature as i drink my gin and tang gazing out at our lovely blue planet

― ice cr?m, Wednesday, April 1, 2009 2:42 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

look who's dreaming up elaborate fantasies about how awesome it would be

elaborate fantasies about how awesome space travel would be

vs.

elaborate fantasies about acting all smug and self-aware in space

destroy elaborate fantasies?

i enjoy constructing elaborate fantasies to torment space nerds - they enjoy constructing elaborate fantasies to torment themselves - we are on the same space team

strawspacemen

best thread ever btw

very appropriate new handle shakey

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

i wld go into space x100000!!
as long as i could come back
and as long as when i came back the earth isn't overrun by ape men

but i guess we take our chances

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

...and alcohol is banned in space

Not quite true. Russian and Ukranian cosmonauts have routinely brought vodka up to the ISS. NASA is a dry county though.
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=1d7_1202979451

FWIW, I would go into space x100000 too.

99 votes

http://www.space.com/php/multimedia/imagedisplay/img_display.php?pic=090404-chandra-nebula-02.jpg&cap=Red+represents+low-energy+X-rays%2C+the+medium+range+is+green%2C+and+the+most+energetic+ones+are+colored+blue.+The+blue+hand-like+structure+was+created+by+energy+emanating+from+the+nebula+around+they+dying+star+PSR+B1509-58.+The+red+areas+are+from+a+neighboring+gas+cloud+called+RCW+89.+Credit%3A+NASA%2FCXC%2FSAO%2FP.Slane%2C+et+al.

http://www.80smusiclyrics.com/images/nena.jpg

If I don't go to space in this lifetime, I will certainly go there after they thaw me out and revive me. 100% yes.

dead man spacewalking

one big step closer to commercial space flight

one-way ticket, plz

Is there an option where I shoot everyone else into space instead?

Astronaut Scott Kelly breaks American record for days in space