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Title: Where would you go, now?
Post by: josephpalazzo on February 23, 2014, 01:42:07 PM
Another excellent blog from Ethan Siegel. He  imagined himself travelling on the Enterprise (ST:TNG), going to places he would want to visit in our galaxy. Great pix.


Where would you go, now? (//http://scienceblogs.com/startswithabang/2014/02/21/ask-ethan-25-where-would-you-go-now/)
Title: Re: Where would you go, now?
Post by: Hydra009 on February 23, 2014, 02:21:45 PM
Alphard (//http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alphard), naturally.   :)
Title: Re: Where would you go, now?
Post by: josephpalazzo on February 23, 2014, 02:59:21 PM
Quote from: "Hydra009"Alphard (//http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alphard), naturally.   :)

Quote(? Hya, ? Hydrae, Alpha Hydrae) is the brightest star in the constellation Hydra. The name Alphard is from the Arabic ????? (al-fard), "the solitary one"...
Title: Re: Where would you go, now?
Post by: the_antithesis on February 23, 2014, 03:38:20 PM
I would likely go to Seattle, although I'm unsure why.
Title: Re: Where would you go, now?
Post by: Jack89 on February 23, 2014, 07:49:06 PM
Quote from: "the_antithesis"I would likely go to Seattle, although I'm unsure why.
The fish market.
Title: Re: Where would you go, now?
Post by: Jack89 on February 23, 2014, 07:55:54 PM
All those constellations and nebula are absolutely beautiful, but I think I'd like to find a planet with some life that I could interact with.
Title: Re: Where would you go, now?
Post by: GrinningYMIR on February 23, 2014, 08:24:19 PM
The Citadel, or Illium. Or the Normandy
Title: Re: Where would you go, now?
Post by: renasimplified on April 18, 2014, 11:31:50 PM
Quote from: Jack89 on February 23, 2014, 07:49:06 PM
The fish market.

It's called Pike Place Market :) and it is awesome! 

Title: Re: Where would you go, now?
Post by: Johan on April 19, 2014, 09:35:37 AM
I know we like to think of ourselves as being better than this. But if you look at our track record as a species you quickly realize that if we were actually able to travel to other worlds where other forms of life existed, we would go wherever we knew there was a form of life or a resource that we could exploit for our own gain or possibly have sex with. We're people. Its what we do.
Title: Re: Where would you go, now?
Post by: Mr.Obvious on April 19, 2014, 10:28:35 AM
I would go to a planet with a primitive alien-race, have them build pyramids and then die happy knowing the confusion it would bring later on.
Title: Re: Where would you go, now?
Post by: Solitary on April 19, 2014, 10:48:28 AM
Did I hear my name mentioned? Solitary  I want to go to Azure.