If someone offered you a chance to make a one-way trip in space would you go?

Question

Here's the deal: You get an offer from NASA. They need someone to travel in a spacecraft sent to explore Uranus, Neptune and Pluto, but it's a one-way trip. You will occupy a comfortable and well-appointed cabin on the ship and you will be one of a crew of 3-5 space explorers who will make observations and send them home to earth. The trip will take several decades, and no return to earth is possible. The spacecraft will sustain you in comfort for your natural life, however. You also have a voice in selecting the other crewmembers and you could bring a spouse or lover if you chose to do so. You will be free to pursue a relationship if you wish. You will have access to literature, movies, and other entertainment as you may wish. But you can never come home.
What would you say to NASA? Yes, I'll go, or Buzz off?

I wish Yahoo would let me answer my own question, because my answer is much more complex than these spaces allow. Simply stated, I would want to go. Not because I dislike anything about life on earth, but because my sense of adventure would beckon me so strongly it would be hard to say no.

I would want some time to go visit places on earth I haven't seen yet--China, the South Pole, Australia. I would want to spend time with my family. I would want to leave letters and videos for them to remember me by.

If my wife wanted me to decline the offer I would do so. If she wanted to come I would ask she be included on the crew. If she wanted to stay behind I would accept that choice and go.

I'm 66. I've seen a lot, done a lot, and I would jump at the opportunity to "boldly go where no man has gone before." So my answer would probably be "yes, I'll go," but with a few qualifications as I have noted.

Answer 1

I would, without blinking my eyes. The experience will be worthy. After all, the living on Earth is a one-way trip. There will be no significant difference.

Answer 2

There is more to life than these presumed NASA provisions {relationship, access to literature, movies, and other entertainment (like you mentioned)}

1 It is more like life imprisonment, living in a permanent way can be boring, today will be like tomorrow, tomorrow like all other days. The uncertainity of life on earth makes it even interesting, you wouldl miss this.

2 You need to change environment, move around, meet new people, do new things, have your freedom, party, cry, labour a little. without these you will be badly bored, your stress level will rise, you might fall sick,
if there is a doctor in the crew, he might even die before you need him, it could be pathetically horrifying. And what if all crew members die before you (loneliness might kill the last survivor in space!)

3. Man is the one being that you can not predict. They might not be able to provide you with these neccessities for that long. They are not God and cant be totally trusted. EVEN SCIENCE COULD FAIL before day break and you would be trapped in a miserable life, and death with no funeral

4 Your taste today might not be same tomorrow; And when you lack anything (from your provision) due to change in taste, you can not find it there in the dark blank space. But on earth all you have to do is go out there and get it, if you cant get it now, you can hope for another time, in space there's no hope.

I'd say NO! thanks

Answer 3

I'd say that this sounds a great idea for World Peace, as long as you take George Bush and Bin Laden and leave the rest of us sensible people here on Earth.

Answer 4

No way, I couldn't do that. One of my biggest motivations for continuing to live is that everyday I get to wake up and look out at the beauty of the earth. What would I see in space... blackness and more blackness!

Answer 5

hmmm I would really have to think about that,good question.I am not really sure.I mean going to space has always been my dream,but leaving behind everything I have ever known in my entire life and never being able to come back.I think I would say no.




Good question

Answer 6

I'd probably go for it. I'd be amazingly depressed for a while, but then I'm like that lot on earth anyway. So I'd go for it, would be one heck of a ride.

Answer 7

Buzz off!

Answer 8

Buzz off.

Answer 9

I'm on the fence here. It is 50/50 in my mind.
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No, not really I guess. I would turn it down.

Answer 10

Yup...the sooner I get off this ticking time bomb the better.