| ▲ | delichon 14 hours ago |
| I am very not brave but I'd volunteer. The trip is far more awesome than anything I have planned for the rest of my life. And if the shield fails on reentry it would only hurt for a few seconds. So if the crew and the backups and their backups read this and have second thoughts, ping me. |
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| ▲ | bertylicious 12 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| I'm sure the other astronauts are really looking forward to fly with a person showing signs of suicidal ideation. |
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| ▲ | Havoc 6 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Suicide ideation and someone willing to take massive risks for something awesome are very different things | | |
| ▲ | Waterluvian 5 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | I'm sure the other astronauts are really looking forward to fly with a person showing signs of tolerating massive risks. | | |
| ▲ | Havoc 5 hours ago | parent [-] | | Each and every one of them is fully aware that it’s a massive risk and has made their peace with that. You’re getting strapped to a giant rocket. It’s inherently dangerous | | |
| ▲ | Waterluvian 5 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | I don’t actually think astronauts take massive risks. They take massively well-understood and meticulously mitigated risks. Maybe this is a perspective or semantics thing, but I think it’s distinct and important. They’re not Mavericks they’re Icemans. | | |
| ▲ | inetknght 4 hours ago | parent [-] | | > They take massively well-understood and meticulously mitigated risks. Hopefully they're well-understood and meticulously mitigated risks. Because if they're not... well there's always modern day Boeing. |
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| ▲ | spiralcoaster 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Right, so let's add more risk by flying side by side with some nutjob with no regard for their own life. Sounds reasonable. |
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| ▲ | randomNumber7 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | > The trip is far more awesome than anything I have planned for the rest of my life. If you would give your live for a single awsome trip (and you would still have multiple years to live), then you are likely suicidal. Even if it is rational because your live sucks so hard, I would still have to classify you as suicidal. | | |
| ▲ | rhcom2 5 minutes ago | parent | next [-] | | Is jumping on a grenade to save another person suicidal? Or is it just a matter of you not agreeing with the rational? | |
| ▲ | MoltenMan an hour ago | parent | prev [-] | | ...no? It's the same as when you say you'd 'die for somebody'. I don't want to die, but if I had to die to save my family I would. That's not being suicidal. Similarly, if space is important enough to you to take this risk (which realistically is a pretty low risk!) I wouldn't call that suicidal either. I take the risk of death driving in my car every day; that's the nature of life. |
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| ▲ | phantom784 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | I read this as "accepting a risk of death in exchange for getting to have the incredible experience of flying to the Moon", not that they want to die. | | |
| ▲ | tgv 5 hours ago | parent [-] | | There are different outlooks on risk, but the attitude can certainly be described as cavalier towards life, and may signal something stronger. |
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| ▲ | lezojeda 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | [dead] |
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| ▲ | oulu2006 13 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| This is an interesting comment -- your life is precious brother, you might have something in store down the road :) |
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| ▲ | gedy 13 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Depending on one's age, maybe not honestly? (Not the OP) | | |
| ▲ | wiseowise 12 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | If they’re that age, they’re not qualified to be in the crew anyway. | | | |
| ▲ | bertylicious 12 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | In your opinion: at what age does someone become unworthy of life? | | |
| ▲ | gedy 12 hours ago | parent [-] | | That’s definitely not my point, what I meant was it’s not unreasonable for someone who’s older - maybe children have grown, at our nearing retirement, etc. - why not take a risk to fly to space? |
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| ▲ | VoodooJuJu 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | [dead] |
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| ▲ | lostlogin 13 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| My theory is that this is something I’d say/do aged 20, and laugh at aged 60.
I’m slightly closer to 60 and am into the ‘No’ zone. |
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| ▲ | dundarious 13 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori |
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| ▲ | Dr_Incelheimer 10 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| HN generally skews towards the life-affirming/death-fearing quadrant so I don't think many will relate to you here. It still seems safer than being in an active warzone which hundreds of millions of people somehow manage to tolerate. |
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| ▲ | poulpy123 8 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| You would probably not IRL and if you would anyway it would just mean you're not qualified for the flight. Nasa needs smart people who wants to live and succeed their mission, not people who are ok to die because muh space exploration |
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| ▲ | dataflow 14 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| > I am very not brave but I'd volunteer. >> Artemis II could fly just as easily without astronauts on board |
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| ▲ | healthworker 14 hours ago | parent [-] | | I think they were saying they would sign up just for the experience, even if it's unnecessary to the program. | | |
| ▲ | dataflow 13 hours ago | parent [-] | | But that was exactly the point I was responding to, no? If NASA was fine with skipping the astronauts, then they would just send it unmanned, not find a random volunteer. | | |
| ▲ | DoctorOetker 12 hours ago | parent [-] | | especially not one that may chicken out ( "very not brave" ) and destroy the cabin from the inside out by any means necessary (bashing at walls, pissing in cracks, etc.) |
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