Gambling With Wormholes

[cronus]

Say a portal opened up in your living room? You can see a entire different universe on the other side. Maybe you see a unicorn and wizards and shite like that? Would you step through it? Would you wait for it to go away? What would you do?

[Svartalf]

go and explore, I can hardly be more miserable there than here.

[pErvinalia]

If the conditions looked liveable, I'd have a gander.

[Clinton Huxley]

I'd block it up. I don't want unicorn droppings on my persian rug.

[Xamonas Chegwé]

I'll see your wormhole and raise you an hyperspatial rift.

[pErvinalia]

I only deal with Boltzmann Branes..

[Seth]

Say a portal opened up in your living room? You can see a entire different universe on the other side. Maybe you see a unicorn and wizards and shite like that? Would you step through it? Would you wait for it to go away? What would you do?

Absofuckinglutely. Provided I get to gear up first. Take maybe three minutes.

[Seth]

go and explore, I can hardly be more miserable there than here.

My sentiments exactly. Almost anything is better than having Obama in power and having to put up with you folks. Would be nice if there were a livable atmosphere and all....but what the heck, I've got literally nothing to lose.

[Hermit]

Say a portal opened up in your living room? You can see a entire different universe on the other side. Maybe you see a unicorn and wizards and shite like that? Would you step through it? Would you wait for it to go away? What would you do?

All of a sudden I wish this was not hypothetical. Then we'd be rid of the lolbertardian D-K poster boy.

Gearing up for it in three minutes.

[Xamonas Chegwé]

go and explore, I can hardly be more miserable there than here.

My sentiments exactly. Almost anything is better than having Obama in power and having to put up with you folks.

The second part is easily fixed. Nobody is keeping you here.

[Seth]

Say a portal opened up in your living room? You can see a entire different universe on the other side. Maybe you see a unicorn and wizards and shite like that? Would you step through it? Would you wait for it to go away? What would you do?

All of a sudden I wish this was not hypothetical. Then we'd be rid of the lolbertardian D-K poster boy.

Gearing up for it in three minutes.

That's what "preparedness" is all about. In three minutes I can don appropriate clothing and grab the "bug-out" bag, my pistol and my rifle and be out the door with adequate survival gear to get me through most survival challenges. This assumes that the new universe (planet) appears to be able to support human life at all. One might have difficulty if one is sucked into an interstellar vacuum after all. Of course it's risky, because (as many science fiction writers have noted) the food sources or atmosphere may contain poisons or not provide nourishment, but that's a risk that all explorers face. What it takes is the courage to go beyond what is known and comfortable in search of something new and undiscovered, even if it might kill you...because it might not kill you.

And it would be great to have a new world to introduce to Libertarianism before it's been infected by Marxist useful idiots like the ones around here.

Robert Heinlein wrote a great book about the benefits of preparedness called "Farnham's Freehold." He wrote a good many other books about the ability of humans to adapt to severe challenges that are most informative and entertaining.

[Seth]

go and explore, I can hardly be more miserable there than here.

My sentiments exactly. Almost anything is better than having Obama in power and having to put up with you folks.

The second part is easily fixed. Nobody is keeping you here.

It's a dirty job, but somebody has to challenge your nonsense. It's my form of public service, like spearing trash along the highway. It makes the world a little better when your tripe is not left unanswered.

[JimC]

I always have a back-pack filled with gin just on the off chance the opportunity for a little wormhole exploration came along...

[Seth]

I always have a back-pack filled with gin just on the off chance the opportunity for a little wormhole exploration came along...

Excellent plan! Gin has many medicinal uses...

[piscator]

Jim uses it to fend off dehydration.