As a fellow farmer I welcome your presence. I got into goats because they were an eco friendly way to clear unwanted weeds and brush from my land and I have fallen in love with the business and yes, inovative farmers will be key. The old ways, plowing fence row to fence row don't work anymore and spraying chemicals is not the answer either.

Love it. I have cooked up all kinds of house scenarios in my head taking from ancient archaelogical finds, homes carved out of the living rock of a stone bedrock wall, cordwood, berm, etc. utilizing geo thermal, wind or solar power. So many options.

I believe there is plenty of variety within our group. Only a handful of us are farmers, we represent every race and sexual orientation as well as religious/ethnic backgrounds. We are indeed a spicey group!

Ideally we would take the best of the old and the new and combine them to suit ourselves.

But we hopefully have learned enough to not repeat our mistakes in that area.

@misstuffy Which is why we would want to get away from our planet? The difference between the glass half empty and the glass half full? The half empty one has a fly in it. I am somewhat of a pessimist in regard to human behavior.

@Rugglesby There's also Schroedingers cat, think of the new world like that.

@misstuffy poor Fluffy. Caught between a theoretical paradox and reality.

@Rugglesby True, but we could open that box!

Gee thanks, I happen to live in Iowa and its not boring here.

@misstuffy Been there, it is.

And I live in kansas.

@misstuffy and see where he lives. Texas. I was told there's only steers and ? In Texas. Just joking sticks48

@trois2005 My uncle raised purebred polled hereford cattle in a Seguin TX ranch

@Sticks48 I live here and I know better

@trois2005 You are not far off the mark.

@Sticks48 Regardless, there would be no time to be bored with a new world. Everyone would have to pitch in to build structures and set up farms and map the place, daily chores such as laundry and cooking, lots of lively debate as decisions are made regarding how we want our new society to work.

@misstuffy Too much work for me. It would probably be as big of a mess as this place.

I have always wanted to go so bad it isn’t funny. Love Star Trek too and Uhura. I know she is considered a breakthrough for being a black bridge officer but she was also a breakthrough for being a female bridge officer and a hero to little SCIFI freak girls of all races.

Im nearly 57, how old are you?

@misstuffy 47

@Donna_I and we are both in Iowa!

@misstuffy and dreaming of other worlds! Lol!

Yes Menshara is M class, habitable for human life. Usually around a star like our own in a sweet spot so not tidally locked. As far as HOW we get there, we are on the brink of a breakthrough for interstellar travel, if we had Star Treks Warp drive I'd be tickled, my preference, next would be cryo sleep as I would actually like to reach that new world myself.

I say let them stay here and let us go off to the pristine new world.

Love it, love seeing people with the kind of personality to explore.

You mean biting the dust?

@misstuffy Death is the only way for certain I know of. I guess one could live on the ISS but I would reject that also because one would depend on this planet for survival.

@jlynn37 That and the lack of gravity wreaks havoc with your bone density and you have to spend hours a day just exercising to remain healthy.

I have two house cats, a herd of horses and ponies that would be useful there and a herd of meat goats and adding back in a milk goat soon. We would need livestock people and livestock as well as crop farmers and specialty farmers, craftsman and all kinds of tradespeople. And of course children, as long as a genius level IQ is not a prerequisite I'm good.