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List of choices (would you like to be killed by woodchipper, firing squad, gascambers...)

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Choose how to die (with restrictions, or course, no "I want to be nuked in the dining hall")

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Generic Lethal injection

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Electroshock

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Life in prison

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Total Members Voted: 20

[Zanzetkuken The Great]

Hey, as long as there's a chance of me getting fur and ears and a tail, I'm happy.

Do you want your brain transferred via electronic link-up, or removed and surgically attached?

[Vorthon]

Well, if I were to have my preferred option, I'd have gradually have the functions of my brain cells taken over by nanomachines. To create a sort of seamless upload. The whole philosophical ramifications about purely digital uploading kind of frighten me.

[GreatWyrmGold]

Well, that's out of my department. Have fun with the roboticist nuts...

[10ebbor10]

So you want us to turn your brain in a living computer, then send it into space. I don't take any responsibilities if your brain is wiped out by a small solar flare, or because you downloaded something from the internet.

[misko27]

Well, if I were to have my preferred option, I'd have gradually have the functions of my brain cells taken over by nanomachines. To create a sort of seamless upload. The whole philosophical ramifications about purely digital uploading kind of frighten me.

Like the fact thatt everytime you teleport, you die? And a copy of you is made? And that on Star Trek, every one dies repeatedly and hope their clone can continue the mission, their entire LIFE, Sucessfully?

Philosophical.

[Zanzetkuken The Great]

Like the fact thatt everytime you teleport, you die? And a copy of you is made? And that on Star Trek, every one dies repeatedly and hope their clone can continue the mission, their entire LIFE, Sucessfully?

This is why I never will be teleported.  I don't care if I have to walk, I am not teleporting.

[miauw62]

So you want us to turn your brain in a living computer, then send it into space. I don't take any responsibilities if your brain is wiped out by a small solar flare, or because you downloaded something from the internet.

PEOPLE, PEOPLE!
B.O.O.Z.E. is a half-biological Super-AI. You will NOT be uploaded to a machine, only back-upped. Those back-ups will be put in a special faraday cage.

But apparantly, this is not about B.O.O.Z.E.

I think me and greatwyrm should work togheter on this.
It's not B.O.O.Z.E., but not bioglados either.

[10ebbor10]

Like the fact thatt everytime you teleport, you die? And a copy of you is made? And that on Star Trek, every one dies repeatedly and hope their clone can continue the mission, their entire LIFE, Sucessfully?

This is why I never will be teleported.  I don't care if I have to walk, I am not teleporting.

That's only one way of teleporting. Ie, the scan things, transmit info and then rebuild you using said information method. Star Trek's teleporters don't work that way, for example.
They really move the matter from point A to B.

[IronTomato]

Like the fact thatt everytime you teleport, you die? And a copy of you is made? And that on Star Trek, every one dies repeatedly and hope their clone can continue the mission, their entire LIFE, Sucessfully?

This is why I never will be teleported.  I don't care if I have to walk, I am not teleporting.

That's only one way of teleporting. Ie, the scan things, transmit info and then rebuild you using said information method. Star Trek's teleporters don't work that way, for example.
They really move the matter from point A to B.

As long as our teleporters actually move matter, I vote yes. I don't want a new me every time I want to teleport, that would give me a sad feeling, like the one I got when I learned that's how the respawn machine in Borderlands 2 worked.

[Graknorke]

Like the fact thatt everytime you teleport, you die? And a copy of you is made? And that on Star Trek, every one dies repeatedly and hope their clone can continue the mission, their entire LIFE, Sucessfully?

This is why I never will be teleported.  I don't care if I have to walk, I am not teleporting.

If it makes you feel better, regular life is like this. You rely on future iterations of yourself to continue in a manner similar to how you work. The you at the start of this had no idea what the contents of this post were, but still wasted the infinitely small period of time it existed to further the knowledge of a future, more refined version of itself in the future.

[TopHat]

I'd say NO to teleporters. Too risky.

[GreatWyrmGold]

Good news! I'm at the MSI in Chicago and saw something...

At the museum, it was noted as being good for space colonies. The one they had was a cylinder, maybe 4-5 foot radius and under 20 feet long, if my estimates aren't off, and they said it would make all of one person's oxygen and water and half of their food.

So...anyone near Tuscon?

[TopHat]

Good news! I'm at the MSI in Chicago and saw something...

At the museum, it was noted as being good for space colonies. The one they had was a cylinder, maybe 4-5 foot radius and under 20 feet long, if my estimates aren't off, and they said it would make all of one person's oxygen and water and half of their food.

So...anyone near Tuscon?

Beg, steal, make or buy?

[GreatWyrmGold]

Good news! I'm at the MSI in Chicago and saw something...

At the museum, it was noted as being good for space colonies. The one they had was a cylinder, maybe 4-5 foot radius and under 20 feet long, if my estimates aren't off, and they said it would make all of one person's oxygen and water and half of their food.

So...anyone near Tuscon?

Beg, steal, make or buy?

Which is most practical?

Update: There are two parts to the Living In Space exhibit... and the second is about Mars! It includes lots of stuff, notably a section on landing sites.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

The red circles are places that they were thinking of landing the Curiosity, a rover.
Gale Crater is the nearest to Olympus Mons and is "A huge impact crater surrounding a 3-mile high mountain whose geologic layers are from time periods throughout the history of Mars." Downside: the Curiosity is landing there.
There are other sites mentioned, but they're not as neat.

Thoughts?

[Zanzetkuken The Great]

Ahem.

192. No matter how brilliant it may seem, and regardless my engineering/explosives skill, I am not allowed to make Rubik's Cube bombs, where the only way to disarm them is to solve them.

We should use this idea.