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Are you volunteering? People can be quick to offer other humans as sacrifices for some greater good

• throw123123123 6y ago
  There are plenty of volunteers offering their life for a lot less - a whole army of them.
  • jiofih 6y ago
    The difference is you don’t need 20 years of training and multiple post-doc diplomas to join the army. Every loss there is insanely expensive in terms of human capital.
  • hoseja 6y ago
    And they get into a LOT of preventable accidents, without anybody seeming to care very much.
  • hertzrat 6y ago
    I think what you’re saying is true. I want to add that there are other armies of “volunteers” in other areas of life who didn’t actually volunteer in a fully free way
  • upbeat_general 6y ago
    There is an absolute focus on safety not just for manned missions. Spaceflight is expensive and any small fuckup can cause a loss of many many millions.