I'm ready  

Sounds cool imagine having a school trip in Space

I shudder to think at the prices though

I love your spaceman erin . charli: yep it's going to cost a bloody fortune to start with.

I Really doubt most of would  like to live forever..etc..

Have you been reading the '10 things men were promised but never got' list on MSN homepage?  

Mr C was reading it yesterday, I happened to look over his shoulder and pontificated that the bum secs would probably be at the top of the list. 

I would. Think of the things you'd live to see. In 100 years football players will earn so much money all the games will be on hologram only because no fekker can afford the prices to see them play (and most of them will still be crap). Who wouldn't want to stick around to see that?

In 200 years women might have finally learned to explain what's wrong with them instead of saying 'I'm fine' when they're pissed off. That would be quite good too, wouldn't it?

at that last comment Prom

You need to start checking your online schedule with the women on here. It's PMT central at this IP address AND I DON'T APPRECIATE YOUR LAST COMMENT AND I DON'T NEED A FRIGGIN CUDDLE. I'm going to call you a fool for the second time today and it's not even ten past midnight. Fool.

Prometheus - Do you mean forever or for say 400 years?

Thinking it through, eventually our sun will explode, taking Planet Earth with it. You would be left floating around space, not being able to breathe, eat or do anything, but also not being able to die either - not a good state of affairs !!

I think living for a few hundred years might be interesting, assuming you have your health and mental faculties intact.

I don't think we will ever get off this planet. I think the usage of resources will lead us to a state of pseudo-agrarian living. I love my electronic toys and LCD tv, my blu-rays and my car and my iPods (yes I have more than one). I would find it hard not to use these things so I am not helping the situation !!

We'll have found a way to survive somewhere other than Earth by then. You don't know what technoclogies they might come up with. I wouldn't mind floating around in space though. I could sing that David Bowie sang about 'planet Earth is blue and there's nothing I can do'.

Yeah but on hearing that Prom - would anyone let you land - wud ya not soon run out of Gazzoleen ?? - then what wud ya do ?

Having just got rid of me I seriously doubt it 

Heard you before had they ? 

Living forever fills me with dread.

It would depend on whether our longevity was due to healthy living or a 'SHE' kinda curse!
Personally I would like to see as many of my childrens childrens childrens .... you get my point!
Only on condition that I grow no more unable & that I can select my own ending!
Non negotiable!

The faces says a thousand things Prom! - never mind 

Don't you feel you're going to miss out on all kinds of exciting stuff that hasn't been invented yet? I do! I suppose it might be handy to have a clause in your contract that says you can end it all if you get bored 

Shove off, a legend in me own bedroom is what I am 

Slim, I have my children's children. They are teenagers, I dread what they are going to do (could be funny), but I'm quite happy not to see their children or their lives.
Does that sound bad? I hope not, I'm just fed up with bad news.

Prom, I do think I'd love to know things that might be discovered, but the reality is that I won't be able to see it all. Think 2525. I'm shuffling off soonish and it does make me feel a bit mad that I can't be here for all the new stuff, but I'm quite glad not to have to be looking over my family any more.

Make me!
*refrains*

But would you want be on your own forever - floating through space like a bad episode of Blake Seven ??

But whos to say, the future doesn't hold anything but good news ??

Thanks slim, but I have an illness which is going to carry me off fairly soon. I'm hoping for another couple of years. It puts things in perspective and the family comes first.

I wasn't really planning on floating through space tbh. I was thinking of eventually settling down with a nice pad on Mars, or maybe Jupiter. I'd be pretty good as an intergalactic foreign correspondent I reckon, except I won't because by that time I'll be brown bread 

Crikey! 

Would have to agree bout the family - whether I like it or not 

Bit of a romantic at heart there Prom 

No slim I don't want to be 'a' daddy, I want to be the intergalactic space dude daddy 

If you say so! - *sniggers*