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There are plenty of volunteers offering their life for a lot less - a whole army of them.
by throw123123123 6y ago
There are plenty of volunteers offering their life for a lot less - a whole army of them.
- jiofih 6y agoThe 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 agoAnd they get into a LOT of preventable accidents, without anybody seeming to care very much.
- hertzrat 6y agoI 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 agoThere 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.