If humans left the Earth, they wouldn't be humans anymore, the only reason we have this form is because of the exact conditions of the earth, the strength of its gravitational field, the oxygen content, the climate (and these things change in the lifetime of the earth, and have caused major changes in natural selection). We are earthbound man, simple as.

Did you ever see the experiment where they took bird eggs in to space and they developed and hatched them there? They had like legs on there heads, and bulging eyeballs with wings coming out of there neck, and that was 1st generation offspring. When regular astronauts go up in to space they suffer not only muscle dystrophy, but also there bones begin turn to dust as they are depleted of calcium. Plus, they constantly have the sensation of free fall.

The fact you can only take a few hundred up, will fuck up the genepool, and more importantly, why would you wanna live on in space? have you seen space? that shit would get old really fast. After about 5 minutes of tossing ure drink in to the air and gulping it u'd begin to grow very fucking tired of tying every little thing down, oh yeh and ure in a tiny capsule, with an infinite sea of black to keep ureself entertained, with the occasional dot. Fuck living on, its not all its cracked up to be, especially if its without the earth/mobility, I can empathize with Hunter S Thompson for blowin his head off once he lost the freedom of his joints and shit in old age, I'm with him there :thumbsup:

Oh yeh and travelling at the speed of light (186,000 miles per second), it wud take over 13 billion years to travel half the universe, the escape velocity of the earth ignoring, air resistance is 25,000 mph, and we struggle to get to this speed. If u wanna get to the nearest galaxy, it would take about 25,000 years travelling the speed of light, the human race has only been around for about 100,000-150,000 years tops, so it would take roughly, around abouts, 1/4-1/6 of the history of mankind, to get out of this galaxy, then u'd arrive on a planet u'd have to cultivate to be ure own, and u'd have legs growin out of ure nose, and u'd be more of a gelatinous blob, with none of the personality traits, characteristic of bein a human, since u wud av spent ure life in a metal box, in free fall, creating sum seriously different human brains, and logic.

So yeh man I suppose it could happen, but why would you want it too? Cuz all the shit that you enjoy, and find unique about being a human would be lost, if we embarked on an intergalactic mission. Unless we could actually start warping the fabric of space-time, and errrrrr we can barely operate, and calculate the consequences of machines that fuck around with energy transfer like nuclear reactors, and any mechanical device, let alone the very fabric of existance (which ironically, if we ever did, and a catastrophe happened, could actually cause the earth and all stellar bodies to collapse in on themselves, and we would end up destroying the earth by trying to save it, one day I'm gonna make a movie of this scenario starring the likes of the Hoff (ladies dig the Hoff), Adam West, William Shatner and Britney Spears, as a mismatched bunch, from different backgrounds, embark on a mission to find a planet suitable for life, but find something much more important..........themselves, with hilarious results :thumbsup: )

Ye I kno, but slow radiation poisonin doesn't have the same ring to it as.......DUUUUH DUUUUH DUUUUUUUUUUUUH VAPOURISED BY THE SUPERNOVA!!!!! plus the chances of a star exploding in an area close enuff to be destructive to the earths atmosphere is something like one every billion years or so, and even then it would need to be a really big star. But hey I was just tryin to get your attention