| ▲ | bertylicious 12 hours ago |
| 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 |
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| ▲ | 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 8 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. |
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| ▲ | 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 [-] |
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