Would you join a space colony program if it let you give up your debts and obligations on earth?

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It could be Elon Musk's colony, or it could be a deeply religious colony founded by the Mormons or Hutterites or some other group entirely. Generally a strong and cohesive culture would benefit the survival of the colony.

You would be free of all debts holding you to earth, but you can still take your family and pets along. For the rest of your life you would be among the same 100-200 people, with everyone deeply invested in working together - as mismanagement would cause the food or air supply to run out and kill everyone. There is also the chance of accidents happening that take out the entire colony ship.

If it's a colony ship to Mars or another place reachable in your lifetime you'll have the opportunity to stake out your own land and build on it.
 
Yeah. As a geneticist, I'd be able to get up to some neat stuff with plant genomes; and looking at the long term effect of cosmic rays on living organisms would be neat. Even if I would be one of those organisms.
 
Yes, I don't want my soul to be weighed down by gravity anymore.

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David Brown said:
Not a chance. Projects that big need government money and would include diversity hires at every step. It wouldn't make it out of orbit.
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Nah, they don't need government money; but they are still massively risky. The government can afford to piss away money; it can't afford to have an easily visible, national tragedy like 'All those astronauts we sent up suffocated to death because someone fucked up'. Which is why government space stuff takes so long.

With just the cash we dumped on setting up refugees, we could have used the Apollo era boosters to put down a functional moon colony. It just would have a high risk, because space is incredibly risky.
 
There would need to be booze on the spaceship and a way to brew more booze, because I think drinking in cupola would be so based
 
Are we on a planet, or a ship?

Not a ship. I'd be worried about going Jack Torrance from the close quarters and isolation. As much as I wanna get away from this gay earth, I'm also a massive claustrophobe and need room to live.

If we're on a planet, hell yes. I'm a hiker and wouldn't mind dying attempting to climb Olympus Mons.
 
Stan said:
There would need to be booze on the spaceship and a way to brew more booze, because I think drinking in cupola would be so based
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I was working with yeast recently as part of a bioreactor set up; and it got me thinking about booze in zero g. Normally the density difference will pull away the booze in suspension; but in zero G I'm not sure that would work properly. Would you end up with lower ABV% booze because the ethanol toxicity begins killing the yeast, as it would built up around it? Would you have to keep the whole solution in motion as a result? You could vortex the still as the yeast eats the sugar; or make the still spherical and spin the sphere to make it work that way.

The setting up of some sort of still in microgravity would be a really neat project. NASA is never going to do it though, what with the whole 'Drugs on a spaceship', 'Pressurised gas vessel on spaceship.' and 'Highly flammable liquid on a spaceship' thing that they would get all sweaty and nervous about.
 
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Johan Schmidt said:
I was working with yeast recently as part of a bioreactor set up; and it got me thinking about booze in zero g. Normally the density difference will pull away the booze in suspension; but in zero G I'm not sure that would work properly. Would you end up with lower ABV% booze because the ethanol toxicity begins killing the yeast, as it would built up around it? Would you have to keep the whole solution in motion as a result? You could vortex the still as the yeast eats the sugar; or make the still spherical and spin the sphere to make it work that way.

The setting up of some sort of still in microgravity would be a really neat project. NASA is never going to do it though, what with the whole 'Drugs on a spaceship', 'Pressurised gas vessel on spaceship.' and 'Highly flammable liquid on a spaceship' thing that they would get all sweaty and nervous about.
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I'd figure brewers would use centrifuges like those little ones for separating blood vials. Also opens up the possibility of using multiple gravities of force and maybe even filters of some sort.
 
Betonhaus said:
I'd figure brewers would use centrifuges like those little ones for separating blood vials. Also opens up the possibility of using multiple gravities of force and maybe even filters of some sort.
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Gotta be careful though, since you need the yeast to still be alive, and if you ramp it too high you'll kill the yeast. It'd need to be big enough to make brewing viable, slow enough to keep the yeast alive, and yet still be a compact system since space is always going to be a premium. Even if you're on a colony inside a magma tube, there's only so much you can oxygenate (Unless you're a mining colony, which would have literally infinite O2 since smelting iron releases tonnes of the stuff.) and keep liveable. It'd be a neat little project.
 
I plan on leaving the planet one day for another world. I'm not sure if it will be one of my last on earth, but I have the feeling I won't be returning. Not anytime soon. I feel guilty as I realize that I don't have a blog entry dedicated to my dogs.

I realize that my dog posts are really, really pathetic.
 
No, unless they found a planet as beautiful as earth. I like it here.

I wish there were space colonies for people who want to go though. Leave the earth for people who really enjoy it and the people who want something new and don't feel invested in a future here can start over in space.
 
Dr. Henry Armitage said:
Nah i hate people to much. Being in close quarters with people the rest of my life sounds like absolute hell.
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They would be the same people though. And if it's a mars colony you'd just be in space together for a little while then have your own dome with the nearest neighbor a days walk away.
 
Yes only so I could use the time before launch to have a party so wild it will change the world. Like spending so much money that when my debts are cleared the economy just has to reset and inviting every politician and celebrity so I could secretly [REDACTED BY FEDERAL AGENCY]. I'll be high in the sky free from my obligations to the death penalty long before the state could bother to flip that switch.
 
I'm more interested in a space colony program that doesn't absolve me of my earthly debts and obligations, purely for the logistics of it.

How are you gonna collect when I'm terraforming some rock a million miles away?
 
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They would be the same people though. And if it's a mars colony you'd just be in space together for a little while then have your own dome with the nearest neighbor a days walk away.
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I don't care if they're the same people I want to be by myself 95% of the time. and i sure don't want to live in a dome on a barren wasteland. I enjoy nature to much to give it up for mars.
 
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Johan Schmidt said:
I was working with yeast recently as part of a bioreactor set up; and it got me thinking about booze in zero g. Normally the density difference will pull away the booze in suspension; but in zero G I'm not sure that would work properly. Would you end up with lower ABV% booze because the ethanol toxicity begins killing the yeast, as it would built up around it? Would you have to keep the whole solution in motion as a result? You could vortex the still as the yeast eats the sugar; or make the still spherical and spin the sphere to make it work that way.

The setting up of some sort of still in microgravity would be a really neat project. NASA is never going to do it though, what with the whole 'Drugs on a spaceship', 'Pressurised gas vessel on spaceship.' and 'Highly flammable liquid on a spaceship' thing that they would get all sweaty and nervous about.
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That’s a genuinely neat idea you got there. I’ve brewed booze a couple of times but I wouldn’t know where to begin in microgravity environment.

And yeah while NASA is strict about no drugs on the ship, I hear tell that the men aboard the Mir station had a vodka ration :biggrin: (pretty sure it was just shipped in though. With the price of launching payload into orbit the price of whatever you’re sending is a rounding error.)
 
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