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Star Trek’s Capt. Picard tells earthlings to get their own planet in order
LONDON (AP) — The captain of the USS Enterprise thinks people should stay on Earth instead of boldly going where no man has gone before.
Patrick Stewart, who played Captain Jean-Luc Picard in the TV series Star Trek: The Next Generation, said in an interview published Tuesday that he thinks interplanetary travel for humans is a bad idea.
“I’m a bit of a wet blanket when it comes to the whole business of space travel,” Stewart was quoted as saying on the British Broadcasting Corp.’s Web site.
“I would like to see us get this place right first before we have the arrogance to put significantly flawed civilizations out onto other planets — even though they may be utterly uninhabited,” he said.
Stewart, 63, said he approved of unmanned missions such as NASA’s use of twin rovers to explore the surface of Mars. But he objected to sending astronauts, saying the trips were too expensive.
“As I get older, my unease at the time and the money that has to be spent on projects putting human beings back to the moon, and onto another planet, is so enormous,” Stewart said. “And it would take up so many resources, which I personally feel should be directed at our own planet.”
President Bush’s new budget proposes an ambitious program to return Americans to the moon as early as 2015, and eventually to send a mission to Mars.
However, the budget only contains $1 billion US in new money for the effort over the next five years, with another $11 billion reallocated from current NASA programs.
The BBC said Stewart made the comments in an interview with its World Service radio broadcast.

― Huckadelia (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 3 February 2004 20:11 (twenty-two years ago)

It's a Borg plot. He was one of them once, you know.

― Lord Custos Omicron (Lord Custos Omicron), Tuesday, 3 February 2004 20:13 (twenty-two years ago)

by "borg" you mean "french", right¿

― dyson (dyson), Tuesday, 3 February 2004 20:14 (twenty-two years ago)

yeah, picard is a froggie remember?

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Tuesday, 3 February 2004 20:16 (twenty-two years ago)

“As I get older, my unease at the time and the money that has to be spent on projects putting human beings back to the moon, and onto another planet,
is so enormous,” Stewart said. “And it would take up so many resources, which I personally feel should be directed at our own planet.”

As opposed to the time, money and resources wasted on being a nerd.

― Huckadelia (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 3 February 2004 20:16 (twenty-two years ago)

What has Shatner got to say about this? The REAL Enterprise commander?

― andy, Tuesday, 3 February 2004 20:28 (twenty-two years ago)

He'd just yell "Get a Life!"

― Lord Custos Omicron (Lord Custos Omicron), Tuesday, 3 February 2004 20:52 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh...sorry...
he'd say "Get! (long dramatic pause) a Life!"

― Lord Custos Omicron (Lord Custos Omicron), Tuesday, 3 February 2004 20:53 (twenty-two years ago)

not to be confused with "Kill your wife!"
not that he did, mind you.

― Huckadelia (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 3 February 2004 20:53 (twenty-two years ago)

I thought was Lt Commander Robert Blake who phasered his womanoid to death.

― Lord Custos Omicron (Lord Custos Omicron), Tuesday, 3 February 2004 21:00 (twenty-two years ago)

baaaah, my comment was in very poor taste.
as far as i know, he was never even accused of being responsible for the drowning death a few years back of his wife.

― Huckadelia (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 3 February 2004 21:02 (twenty-two years ago)

The thread has sidetracked, fallen off a cliff and is currently grinding its wheels in mud.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 3 February 2004 21:07 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm sorry, delete away!!!

― Huckadelia (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 3 February 2004 21:08 (twenty-two years ago)

HE WAS SO.................YOUNG

― Ronan (Ronan), Tuesday, 3 February 2004 23:28 (twenty-two years ago)

MAKE IT BEIGE

― Ronan (Ronan), Tuesday, 3 February 2004 23:29 (twenty-two years ago)

“I would like to see us get this place right first before we have the arrogance to put significantly flawed civilizations out onto other planets — even though they may be utterly uninhabited"

If we put all the significantly flawed civilizations out onto other planets, wouldn't we be helping to "get this place right?"

― martin m. (mushrush), Tuesday, 3 February 2004 23:43 (twenty-two years ago)

Planet Palestine!

― Lord Custos Omicron (Lord Custos Omicron), Wednesday, 4 February 2004 15:41 (twenty-two years ago)

Shut up, LC

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 4 February 2004 16:38 (twenty-two years ago)

Momus's 'Space Jews' to thread

― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 4 February 2004 16:44 (twenty-two years ago)

Tracer, you may think I'm kidding, but I'm not.
There might be thousands of inhabitable planets within a 100 light year radius. Enough for every possible group of angry misanthropes to get an entire planet to call their own.
I look forward to such a scenario.

― Lord Custos Omicron (Lord Custos Omicron), Wednesday, 4 February 2004 17:20 (twenty-two years ago)

Besides, this also mitigates the overpopulation problem.
And if you deal with overpopulation, all other problems (lack of housing, starvation, pollution) become easier to deal with.

― Lord Custos Omicron (Lord Custos Omicron), Wednesday, 4 February 2004 17:21 (twenty-two years ago)

LC you may think I'm kidding but I'm not!

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 4 February 2004 17:34 (twenty-two years ago)

I think Tracer might be on to something here.

― adam (adam), Wednesday, 4 February 2004 18:14 (twenty-two years ago)

Tracer...whats wrong with my idea?
Really?

― Lord Custos Omicron (Lord Custos Omicron), Wednesday, 4 February 2004 20:17 (twenty-two years ago)

could this thread be the wrongest thread ever from what was originally a decent enough thread idea?

― Huckadelphia (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 4 February 2004 20:19 (twenty-two years ago)

eight years pass...

Tracer...whats wrong with my idea?
Really?
― Lord Custos Omicron (Lord Custos Omicron), Wednesday, February 4, 2004 3:17 PM (8 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

― Author ~ Coach ~ Goddess (s1ocki), Wednesday, 28 November 2012 06:02 (thirteen years ago)

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