lots of peple, i think, especially men?, have dreams about 'the Final Frontier'---where,,,NO MAAAN HAS GONE BEFORRRRE
in te air i sense is this general feeling that with our escalatingly push bottn, hover-OVER button. VOICEbutton etc, LSD, computerized world that its getting closer to 'lift-of'

but Ihave no dreams about it. of course i can look at Hubble space photos and have my mid completely blow---by the unimaginable vastness of space, ad enomity of events, and beauty of it all. but it doesn't make me wanna be on some minimilist clinical spaceship in the vast far away from home, EARTH. so what should i do? feel guilt about not having this dream?

So i am curious who here has this dream and why? and who hasn't and why?

QuarkMoon = Male

I don't have dreams about being an astronaut, but I do dream of days where we finally come in contact with other intelligent life, when we find ways to travel into deep space and to explore outside of our Solar System (or even travel to other planets within our Solar System for that matter).

I personally wouldn't want to go into space on a conventional space craft, much too uncomfortable (which is the reason why I absolutely despise airplanes).

IF YOU SPEND the whole day looking at pictures of planets and stars.... all day..

then you will dream of them...

if you read romance novels.... you will dream of it.

many things you do... have done.. will do... want to do.. wish to do... all come into play in a big swirl of processing and reorganization..... dreams.

that is why influences are so important.... or hazardous...

its not so much.. what you do... as what you spend time thinking about.

-MT

So i am curious who here has this dream and why? and who hasn't and why?
I've never had an actual dream about space etc but I certainly daydream about it occasionally. The why is easy, if we humans do not head off to the stars we will most certainly become extinct, eventually the earth will not be habitable by humans. The sooner we get out there permanently the better our odds of avoiding extinction.

I've often wondered if space would ever be the same as ocean type expeditions in previous years.
What I mean to say is- I don't imagine like 30 vikings chopping up a forest to build a boat, and sailing wherever. I imagine space travel to be limited to giant corperations/govts with vast resources (equiv. East India company).


I also don't imagine there will ever be space pirates

I want something new to explore. I want to see what's out there. Kind of like Lewis and Clark in America, going just to see what you find. Having an outlet for what little curiosity I have left. Being awed and amazed and surprised. Having something to wonder about again. :)

was in NATURE TODAY AND I REMEMBERED THIS CONVERSATION......I thought: i dont mind if those who would like to TO go into space. and to leave this Earth to the earth luvin pagans..hehe. then i got te negative tought..'but ohhh yeah, but u can be fukin sure they will make sure its a toxic rock totally stripped of minerals nd shit befo they leave....bummer' only a negative thought. dont mean its real
BUt as i said. i have no desire to go. i dig the adventurous spirit. but I feel that i rely dont know EARTH. i dont know it as a free person. i knows it as a proson planet. so MY dream is resolving THAt not kind of .........leweaving a trash legacy, if u will. i jest think that a mindset took over here, and i resent it reallly deeply, because it is so truly ignorant, they are welcome to go!
u know i dont mean you dude

I want to. I love the feeling of experiencing something new...

u know i dont mean you dudeI know, and I also know how you feel. I feel that way sometimes too. :)

In answer to your initial question, I get why people find the whole idea of space exploration exciting, a challenge if you will - but, indeed, personally I wouldn't do it even if y'paid me.

Frankly, going anywhere where there isn't so much as descent gin and tonic waiting for you at the end of the day is just.... why?!

Frankly, going anywhere where there isn't so much as descent gin and tonic waiting for you at the end of the day is just.... why?!

I could imagine you writing that into your contract.
There would have to be two extra modules built onto the spaceship. One would be a greenhouse module for growing the wheat and juniper berries. The second would be this complex distillery/tonic water conversion facilty (staffed with a highly trained engineer to insure that the gin and tonic water is 'decent').
I guess all that's left is to define what exactly the 'day'' is, and what point is considered the end. Would you need to be stationed close to a star to give the day recognizable context?

You're bladdy right I would, and as far as "I could imagine you writing that into your contract" goes - I did.

:)

OK, here one ting i'd like to do in outer space. i would like my space ship to be really homely. like a arussian decor. organic lookin material, chaise lounge, etc. cool music. anyway i shut music off...........i partake of a psychedelic sacrament and ten above Earth i begin to observe it in a psychdelicized state

what would i see?

....i partake of a psychedelic sacrament and ten above Earth i begin to observe it in a psychdelicized state

what would i see?
More of the same I'd imagine :p

More of the same I'd imagine :p
i think i'd see Eaerth as this huge undulating breathing organism totally interelated with all surrounding cosmos

also the patterns of clouds forming arabesques, faces, swirling tempests, whirlwinds
the rock showing patterns, like sometimes like complex micro chip circuitry and others primal faces, and animal shapes

remember reading that for some astronauts the very experience of seeing Earth deeply affected them, and they realized howsmall it was. and also having no boundaries

we couod even arrange an on-earth esperience of tis. have ahuge thatre show an larde large LCD moving picture of Earth---believe they are working on HND now which i supposed to be closer to 3D clarity--and in the dark have people take a scacrament and experiene Earth, takin it is not compulsory however. just the expericing of Earth-As- ORganism is enuf. so as to BOND earthlings to their home

I dreams of 3D mario.

before i typeed 'Earth' @ google and hit on 'i'm feeling lucky' and say this website where apparently you can actually view Earth in '3D'.....ohhhh, arenn't iii missin out!!!!!

anyon here done this whilst Trypin?..ie., observed as near to being-in-space view of our planet Earth. of course it would be nothing like actual observation when in space, but.......anyone?