Assume that you found them to be wise and benevolent beings and that you gathered that their civilisation was very advanced and harmonious.Assume also that you are young say in your 20's or 30's and single or, if you are not, the question still stands.
So, are you like Elliot in E.T. (Stay) or Richard Dreyfuss's character in Close Encounters (Go)?
2007-12-30 05:27:11 · 32 answers · asked by Maxim 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Believe this or not I am going to get a little way out here with this, what if they actually found a really good planet and the really wealthy and highest educated that had all the resources took off and left for it and left the peons like most of us here on earth because they knew it was going to have a melt down how would you feel about that? I don't know if I would want to go or not, but lots of sci fi and other types of writers have explored this issue over the past it is interesting isn't it?
2007-12-30 05:37:47 · answer #1 · answered by Friend 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
If they left behind something that would help all of mankind as a legacy of my departure like the cure for all forms of cancer or the blueprints to build a fusion reactor like the one in "Back to the Future II", most certainly I would go. Unconditionally like some kind of prisoner, even though my "captors" are benevolent, only if I were old and crippled and they offered me paradise and youth again would I accept.
2007-12-30 09:39:58 · answer #2 · answered by Emissary 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes i would go provided they let me take my friends and my family with me so we can have a ball out in another planet.
2007-12-31 12:50:14 · answer #3 · answered by Pretty 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yeah, sounds great!
2007-12-31 09:04:40 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
b.Richard Dreyfus's.
I already have my bags packed.
2007-12-31 00:40:51 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Stay, I couldnt leave the rest of you to blow yourselves up.
2007-12-31 00:10:24 · answer #6 · answered by futuretopgun101 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Oooh. Tough one. I would stay, because you don't mention whether or not there are the basic yet vital requirements for human survival on this planet, such as oxygen, food, water, etc. these beings could live off of simply breathing in carbon monoxide, in which case i would die almost instantly. Also, if i went and i was in my 20's or 30's, then i would be throwing away the chance of having a family, so i wouldn't go because i want a family some day.
2007-12-30 22:53:10 · answer #7 · answered by AG Bellamy 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Even assuming they really were nice
No - I have enough difficulty with the culture shock of crossing the channel to France!
2007-12-30 09:59:42 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's already happened. To me. I didn't go. I could have gone with them for ever, in which case they would have been my family. Or I could have gone for two weeks and undergone training, downloaded directly into the brain, in which case I would have been their Friend. But instead I chose to go home.
2007-12-30 09:07:28 · answer #9 · answered by Hi T 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Considering what we (humans) and this world has become, I'd be out of here in a flash. Their spaceship wouldn't be fast enough to keep pace with me.
2007-12-30 07:02:16 · answer #10 · answered by Bob D1 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋