If an alien spaceship landed and offered to show you the universe (or as much of it in your lifespan as possible) would you go with them?
Assumption being they are friendly and will not harm you and they will feed and water you.
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I dunno, I kinda like it down here 
Originally Posted by Enthusiastic Contrafibularities:
If an alien spaceship landed and offered to show you the universe (or as much of it in your lifespan as possible) would you go with them?
Assumption being they are friendly and will not harm you and they will feed and water you.
Don't think Roger drinks water
@Rog
Not sure Roger's the best representative for alienkind 
And his craft doesn't work either. His people used him as a crash test dummy
What would you know? You're an alien anyway 
Originally Posted by Sprout:
What would you know? You're an alien anyway
Yes. 
No. There's so much to see round here, and you can't be sure if they have cycle tracks elsewhere. I remember reading "the mote in god's eye" and there was no mention of bicycles whatsoever,
Originally Posted by Garage Joe:
No. There's so much to see round here, and you can't be sure if they have cycle tracks elsewhere. I remember reading "the mote in god's eye" and there was no mention of bicycles whatsoever,
That's because their mode of transport is far superior to ours 
I can't imagine anything superior to cycling through NYSD.
Originally Posted by Garage Joe:
I can't imagine anything superior to cycling through NYSD.
But the question was.....landing anywhere, not specifically NY
If they aren't going to land in God's own country then they can go FT, if I may say so.
My husband says he would go. 
Originally Posted by Lori:
My husband says he would go.
Originally Posted by Enthusiastic Contrafibularities:
If an alien spaceship landed and offered to show you the universe (or as much of it in your lifespan as possible) would you go with them?
Assumption being they are friendly and will not harm you and they will feed and water you.
You may want to read "Star Maker" written by Olaf Stapledon and published in 1937. A science fiction classic about someone who is taken on a journey through the universe.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Maker
Originally Posted by Garage Joe:
No. There's so much to see round here, and you can't be sure if they have cycle tracks elsewhere. I remember reading "the mote in god's eye" and there was no mention of bicycles whatsoever,
OH MY GOD I always thought this 'mote in your eye' saying was something my Dad made up. When we were kids and would be pulling our knickers out of our arses (I dunno why we often had them stuck up our bums, maybe they were too wee or something) my Dad would say 'you've a mote in your eye'.
Originally Posted by Ells:
Originally Posted by Garage Joe:
No. There's so much to see round here, and you can't be sure if they have cycle tracks elsewhere. I remember reading "the mote in god's eye" and there was no mention of bicycles whatsoever,
OH MY GOD I always thought this 'mote in your eye' saying was something my Dad made up. When we were kids and would be pulling our knickers out of our arses (I dunno why we often had them stuck up our bums, maybe they were too wee or something) my Dad would say 'you've a mote in your eye'.
It's the title of a science fiction book by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle. It was published in 1975.
Originally Posted by El Loro:
Originally Posted by Ells:
Originally Posted by Garage Joe:
No. There's so much to see round here, and you can't be sure if they have cycle tracks elsewhere. I remember reading "the mote in god's eye" and there was no mention of bicycles whatsoever,
OH MY GOD I always thought this 'mote in your eye' saying was something my Dad made up. When we were kids and would be pulling our knickers out of our arses (I dunno why we often had them stuck up our bums, maybe they were too wee or something) my Dad would say 'you've a mote in your eye'.
It's the title of a science fiction book by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle. It was published in 1975.
Holy Jeebus... you heathens! Its from the Bible
1 Judge not, that ye be not judged.
2 For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again.
3 And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?
4 Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, Let me pull out the mote out of thine eye; and, behold, a beam is in thine own eye?
5 Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye.
Originally Posted by Ells:
Originally Posted by Garage Joe:
No. There's so much to see round here, and you can't be sure if they have cycle tracks elsewhere. I remember reading "the mote in god's eye" and there was no mention of bicycles whatsoever,
OH MY GOD I always thought this 'mote in your eye' saying was something my Dad made up. When we were kids and would be pulling our knickers out of our arses (I dunno why we often had them stuck up our bums, maybe they were too wee or something) my Dad would say 'you've a mote in your eye'.
ROFL Ells I love that
I think its an Irish thing to quote the Bible in funny situations?
I used to know someone who'd say, whenever someone woke up hungover after a night out "the dead arose and appeared to many".
Originally Posted by Roger the Alien:
Originally Posted by El Loro:
Originally Posted by Ells:
Originally Posted by Garage Joe:
No. There's so much to see round here, and you can't be sure if they have cycle tracks elsewhere. I remember reading "the mote in god's eye" and there was no mention of bicycles whatsoever,
OH MY GOD I always thought this 'mote in your eye' saying was something my Dad made up. When we were kids and would be pulling our knickers out of our arses (I dunno why we often had them stuck up our bums, maybe they were too wee or something) my Dad would say 'you've a mote in your eye'.
It's the title of a science fiction book by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle. It was published in 1975.
Holy Jeebus... you heathens! Its from the Bible
1 Judge not, that ye be not judged.
2 For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again.
3 And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?
4 Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, Let me pull out the mote out of thine eye; and, behold, a beam is in thine own eye?
5 Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye.
and Luke 6 v 41-42:
41 And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but perceivest not the beam that is in thine own eye?
42 Either how canst thou say to thy brother, Brother, let me pull out the mote that is in thine eye, when thou thyself beholdest not the beam that is in thine own eye? Thou hypocrite, cast out first the beam out of thine own eye, and then shalt thou see clearly to pull out the mote that is in thy brother's eye.
Originally Posted by Lori:
My husband says he would go.
With or without you, Lori? Harsh! 
(As the U2 song goes.)
Ooops. Sorry to interrupt the theological discussion here. Goodness knows they are a rare event on this forum.
Originally Posted by Xochi:
Ooops. Sorry to interrupt the theological discussion here. Goodness knows they are a rare event on this forum.
Yes, without a doubt. As long as it didn't look like it might want to eat me
Originally Posted by Xochi:
Originally Posted by Lori:
My husband says he would go.
With or without you, Lori? Harsh! (As the U2 song goes.)
Yep, with or without me.
as as to the question of whether or not I would go: who would do my job?? 
Originally Posted by Carnelian:
Yes, without a doubt. As long as it didn't look like it might want to eat me
Yes, I may not have said that, but one of the provisos is that they are friendly and want nothing more than to share knowledge and experiences with their human passenger.