allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon Allbery) (02/28/86)
Expires: Quoted from <515@cisden.UUCP> ["Re: Why does everyone want to leave this planet?"], by phillips@cisden.UUCP (Tom Phillips)... +--------------- | In article <2960@ut-ngp.UUCP> cgeiger@ut-ngp.UUCP (Charles S. Geiger, Esq.) writes: | >Well, why? While I am very interested in astronomy and all that | >sort of thing, I don't understand why anyone would want to | >permanently migrate to another planet. There's just so much *here* | >to see and learn, certainly enough to last a lifetime! Most | >importantly, this is our home. | >Frankly, I hope all of you gung-ho types will get the opportunity | >to leave and will take advantage of it. That way all the | >exploiters, conquerors, or, to be charitable, "adventurous" types | >(what's so unadventurous about staying here and learning about your | >own planet?) will leave, and I can be at peace here. +--------------- "What space travel does do is drain off the best brains: those smart enough to see a catastrophe before it happens and with the guts to pay the price -- abandon home, wealth, friends, relatives, everything -- and *go*." L. Long (R.A. Heinlein, TIME ENOUGH FOR LOVE) If you're a ``Childe'' or another who's willing to go out there, fear not these. We can go and leave them behind, and be better for it. (I dislike the implication that I am an exploiter, a conqueror -- my drives are deeper than the superficial desire for power. I desire knowledge, gained in the only way that means anything -- going out and wrestling it from the universe. I desire freedom -- the freedom of limitless space. I desire to see humanity out amongst the worlds -- this one DOES have a selfish cause: I know that my chances of survival are between infinitesimal and zero without the rest of humanity, and I truly believe that humanity is doomed if it doesn't get itself spread out so that no planetary disaster (not just nuclear war -- consider the Ice Age we should be in, except for a warm spell whose end is due soon) can wipe it out. Will the ``Childe''s of the Net please stand up? --Brandon -- In mid-winter, all of us Midwesterners would *love* a taste of California... (r-r-r-rumble) (SHA-A-KE!!!) ...but not *that* badly! decvax!cwruecmp!ncoast!allbery ncoast!allbery@Case.CSNET ncoast!tdi2!brandon (ncoast!tdi2!root for business) 6615 Center St. #A1-105, Mentor, OH 44060 Phone: +01 216 974 9210 CIS 74106,1032 MCI MAIL BALLBERY (part-time)