Riledcat
Riledcat t1_iwktg6n wrote
Reply to comment by Upper_You_9565 in Is it really safe for humans to land inside a starship? by football_enjoyer
Honestly, a media obsession with "safety" has been the biggest drawback to manned space travel since the late 80's.
It's no surprise that all the real progress in space travel was driven by a post-war generation who had a very different level of risk-tolerence and very different approach to risk-reward calculation. And had journalists with the same approach.
Riledcat t1_iwkqdyu wrote
Why would it have to conform to some arbitrary standard of "safe"? Exploration is never entirely safe, nor does it have to be. All it has to be is worth the risk.
Riledcat t1_j539e3r wrote
Reply to Does it bother you that you won't be alive when we discover aliens & start to colonise other worlds by [deleted]
You could always get a job as a pizza delivery guy, and hope for a delivery to a cryopreservation company.