Reasons to leave this planet

[vegascat]

How many reasons can we come up with as to why we must eventually leave planet Earth and settle other planets across the universe?

1. Living space
2. Survival of the race
3. To find out who else is out there.
4. To give separation to groups of people that can't live on the same planet in peace.
5. To aquire more rescources.
6. To find a safe place to run experements.
7. To spread the word of God.
8. To settle the question of UFOs.
9. Because man was bred to explore.
10. Manifest Destiny
11. Because it is there.

What else can you think of?

 

[trader jim]

Vegascat...I am truly suprised and dismayed at you...you left out the most important reason....
THERE IS NOT A DECENT CUP OF COFFEE JUICE ON THIS
HERE MUD BALL!!!!!!......just what were you thinking of????......how could you leave it out???? FOR SHAME!!!!

 

[lord irial]

12. To escape Trader Jim.
13. To leave behind those who feel it necessary to spread the word of God.

14. To give the Earth a chance to heal all the damage we've caused it.

 

[siefertma2]

15. New resources, new opportunities, new sources for entrepreneurism.

16. A chance for many to get away from Mankind's greatest scourge... government. (Or at least a place for them to create the sort of government they want far away from anyone who doesn't want to live under their particular system.)

 

[Rover]

My Dear Travellers,

I think tht leaving the planet is our destiny. After all doesn't is say in the bible that the Meek shall inherit the Earth. I guess that means the rest of us are going to space.

 

[theSea]

... Because I'm surrounded by idiots?

Rough day at work - some peoople shouldn't be allowed to use telephones - much less computers.

 

[saulweaver]

Originally posted by Rover:
After all doesn't is say in the bible that the Meek shall inherit the Earth. I guess that means the rest of us are going to space. [/QB]

Well, either that or we are going to get snuffed out.

 

[plop101]

Why leave the planet?


To get the Funk, of course!

Good evening.
Do not attempt to adjust your radio, there is nothing wrong.
We have taken control as to bring you this special show.
We will return it to you as soon as you are grooving.

Welcome to station WEFUNK, better known as We-Funk,
Or deeper still, the Mothership Connection.
Home of the extraterrestrial brothers,
Dealers of funky music.
P.Funk, uncut funk, The Bomb.

Coming to you directly from the Mothership
Top of the Chocolate Milky Way, 500,000 kilowatts of P.Funk-power.
So kick back, dig, while we do it to you in your eardrums.
And me? I'm known as Lollipop Man, alias the Long-Haired Sucker.
My motto is:

Make my funk the P.Funk

 

[Keklas Rekobah]

17) To open the first "McDonald's" franchise in a place that didn't already have one.

18) To find out of all those alien females were the hotties that James Tiberius Kirk made them out to be.

19) To be the first to say, "Take me to your leader", and mean it.

20) To be the first to say "Greetings! I'm from Earth, and I'm here to help you!", and not mean it.

21) To sell deeds to the Middle-East to any alien family willing to pay the fare.

... more to come...

 

[thirdmargrave]

To get away from all the liberals...

 

[woodmage]

42. Because good ol' Terra is about to be ravaged by an asteroid/ nuclear holocaust/ science gone mad/ an interstellar construction company making way for a hyperspace bypass.

 

[BeRKA]

YES! We need the Vogons as a major race in traveller!

 

[sandman]

Originally posted by BeRKA:

YES! We need the Vogons as a major race in traveller!

And Mices as Ancients...

 

[Keklas Rekobah]

V O G O N S M U S T D I E !

Their poetry violates the Geneva Conventions, the Khitomer Accords, and all forms of grammer, syntax, and reason.

Emperor Palpatine was a closet Vogon.

The HAL2000 computer was driven insane when one of it's programmers mistook a page of Vogon poetry for a firewall utility.

Doctor Zachary Smith was working for the Vogons when he sabotaged the Jupiter II - he was wont to utter "Oh, the pain!" whenever he had a flashback to Vogon indoctrination practices.

The voting machines used in Florida during the last presidential elections were designed by - you guessed it - Vogons!

Babylon Five, Firefly, and Star Trek (the original series) were canceled by Vogons.

"Friends" is written by Vogon wannabes.

Pokemon and Yu-Gi-Oh are what Vogons think role-playing games ought to be.

Area 51 is where Vogons run their Earth operations from.

Richard M. Nixon took his orders from a Vogon teddy bear named "Sweetums".

Guess who invented: Rap & Disco music, platform shoes, polyester suits, AM talk radio, Cherry Coke, Lemon Coke, New Coke, Vanilla Coke, the Yugo, GURPS, contract bridge, the state of Indiana, high colonics, the chihuahua in the next apartment, toxic mold, fire ants, MicroSludge Windoze, PMS, 'N Sync & The Backstreet Boys, weapons of mass destruction, the 8-Track format, Mad Magazine, unleaded gas, and Brittany Spears.

V O G O N S !

You have been warned.

 

[justacaveman]

To get away from all the so-called conservatives.

 

[Jame]

To conquer it, and then come back and conquer Earth.

 

[trader jim]

to get away from all those folks who wrote this "stuff" in this thread....HHHHHeeeee

 

[HICKMAN]

Keklas,
You can make fun of all the rest, but when you insult Mad Magazine you're just gettin' mean.
That kind of talk is uncalled for!!!

 

[Reginald]

Because too many ethnic groups have a historical claim to certain areas on earth. They can have it.

Because too many religious denominations have an agenda to create their own theocratic states on earth. They can have it.

Because once I unleash all the nuclear weapons of mass destruction to obliterate the Holy Land off the face of the earth, I am no longer safe.

Earth = Humanity's Landfill.

 

[vegascat]

Sounds like most of reasons have to do with getting away from people who don't believe what you do.
Very few who want to explore or to see what is out there.
No one who wanted to maintain an accepatble standard of living.
And a few who say it as the means of human survival.

The big problem we will have is that the people who can't live knowing others believe differently, think it is cheaper to just do a little genocide on the offending people who believe differently