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P A N · 04-03-2013, 09:45 PM

i think i would probably just watch. i'd save up money for like 3 decades just to buy a sick telescope and just watch it coming. the OP states that it would be a rather torturous death, but i think it would actually be relatively quick... certainly quicker than dying from cancer or something of the sort, anyway. there is no way that i could secure a spot on that thing. a neutron star (correct me if i'm wrong) is a star that has collapsed in on itself and has a density and gravity many thousands of times greater than that of a normal star or planet. as soon as it gets close enough to have any effect at all, it's probably going to be over relatively quickly. i would try to have a spot on top of a small mountain and make sure i had a good assortment of drugs and the best wine known to man, and raise my riedel to oblivion. nature is beautiful. what an honour it would be to even bear witness to a single moment of such monumental celestial change. pitch me into space or swallow me down into the core of the earth. either way, one hell of a way to go out.

as far as what i would think about being left behind, i'd rather be left behind. given, i would probably get on the ark if they invited me, but the unprecedented nature of the experiment is pretty much doomed and it would result in a wretched death, probably wrought with scenes of disease and cannibalism. if this was part of a 500- or 1000- year program with a background, i might feel more inclined to have more hope for it, but 75 years is not enough time to plan an 80 year trip at this point in our technological timeline. an 80 year space flight is pretty much synonymous with the ability to sustain life in space indefinitely and we are just way too far from that for me to entertain the idea that it's possible to pull this off. it's still going to be several years before we land on mars. LAND there. perhaps 100-500 years after we've done experiments in terraforming there i would consider this possible.

and even if it were possible, and even if by some miracle i did get a ticket, watching my planet explode from afar might be too much to bear. continuity of life is probably important, but i think i'd take one for the team on this one and just go down in the realm of familiarity and awe.

interesting thread trollheart. got my imagination going something fierce.

04-03-2013, 09:45 PM	#7 (permalink)
P A N DO LIKE YOU. Join Date: Feb 2010 Posts: 629	i think i would probably just watch. i'd save up money for like 3 decades just to buy a sick telescope and just watch it coming. the OP states that it would be a rather torturous death, but i think it would actually be relatively quick... certainly quicker than dying from cancer or something of the sort, anyway. there is no way that i could secure a spot on that thing. a neutron star (correct me if i'm wrong) is a star that has collapsed in on itself and has a density and gravity many thousands of times greater than that of a normal star or planet. as soon as it gets close enough to have any effect at all, it's probably going to be over relatively quickly. i would try to have a spot on top of a small mountain and make sure i had a good assortment of drugs and the best wine known to man, and raise my riedel to oblivion. nature is beautiful. what an honour it would be to even bear witness to a single moment of such monumental celestial change. pitch me into space or swallow me down into the core of the earth. either way, one hell of a way to go out. as far as what i would think about being left behind, i'd rather be left behind. given, i would probably get on the ark if they invited me, but the unprecedented nature of the experiment is pretty much doomed and it would result in a wretched death, probably wrought with scenes of disease and cannibalism. if this was part of a 500- or 1000- year program with a background, i might feel more inclined to have more hope for it, but 75 years is not enough time to plan an 80 year trip at this point in our technological timeline. an 80 year space flight is pretty much synonymous with the ability to sustain life in space indefinitely and we are just way too far from that for me to entertain the idea that it's possible to pull this off. it's still going to be several years before we land on mars. LAND there. perhaps 100-500 years after we've done experiments in terraforming there i would consider this possible. and even if it were possible, and even if by some miracle i did get a ticket, watching my planet explode from afar might be too much to bear. continuity of life is probably important, but i think i'd take one for the team on this one and just go down in the realm of familiarity and awe. interesting thread trollheart. got my imagination going something fierce.