would you travel to an earth-like planet near a distant star, even if only your descendants get there?

Question

assume we could find earthlike planets around other stars, and know we could live there, and assume we could build giant spaceships that could cross the distance in manty years, maybe centuries, and these ship could take many "colonists" with every thing needed to live on the ship for the time needed, and to make the target planet earthlike, would you embark on this one way journey, knowing that you'll live the rest of your life on a crowded spaceship where space around you could be dangerous, and once the ship gets to the other planet, it is not certain that an earth colony could be established

Answer 1

Yes. For me this is about continuance of the species beyond Sun death etc. We would want to know though that we weren't displacing something like us in the same niche.

Answer 2

I would not.

Seeing the way people treat those from other countries, imagine the way they would discriminate against those from another planet. Especially if after a few centuries and and great improvements in space travel, they can get here in hours and living on that planet has turned them purple with red stripes.

By moving out of here I would have literally alienated all my descendants (assuming I left none here). If they turn out to be the most technologically advanced they would become the aggressors

Until we learn to respect our planet and respect one another we have no business spreading our attitudes to other planets.

If we have not realized that this planet belongs to all of us (all +six billion) and when we die we'll leave it all behind, and that promoting hate means leaving our descendants a divided planet, how can we get along when we actually live worlds apart?

Another scenario, If this were to happen to today, those chosen to go and colonize would most probably be predominantly Caucasian if not exclusively. The the other countries feeling left out would then build their own ship to follow this one. If by some accident one of the minorities in the first ship (assuming it was the only Chinese male) dies on the way all hell would break loose on earth.

On arrival on the new, assuming the later ship (more technologically advanced) arrives first, and has a higher number of Chinese all hell will break lose on that planet as well when the other ship arrived, If the US on predicting this sent a 'preemptive strike' ship soon after the launch of the second...

The point is we are not mature enough to do this. But seeing that I'd be damned if I went or didn't, I'd probably go if they let my take my Jacuzzi, water bed, 60 inch flat screen and PS3.

Answer 3

Doesn't sound like much of a plan. I think I'll wait until the spaceship is huge, comes with all the amenities, and can serve as a permanent residence even if a viable planet isn't discovered.

Answer 4

you're perfect, the gravity of the celebrities would not influence us. we are plagued by the gravity of the Earth, the moon, and the sunlight. the only results of the celebrities is the mild we are able to be certain (and that's no longer adequate to electrify something). the celebrities in a constellation at the instant are not actually related to a minimum of one yet another, they could be hundreds of light years aside - they only take place to lie alongside our line of sight so as that they seem to be they're linked in those arbitrary varieties. the celebrities at the instant are not arranged in a diverse way once you're born - the exchange interior the positions of the celebrities is in basic terms too small to be detected over the process a single human's lifetime.

Answer 5

That's an odd but really interesting question...

I think I would. First because in this senario it is a comfortable trip with a fairly certain reward. The trip itself would be great! You would get to raise future colonists in space, that in itself is a spectacular life to live.

Answer 6

I don't think so. We've done enough damage to this planet that I don't think we can etrusted with another one, if earth really is our first.

Answer 7

Yes if the illegals aren't there to mooch off us.