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How could you keep calm so far away By going through a ten-year process that selects for calm people.

• almost_usual 10mo ago
  I can’t imagine any other group who would be as calm as NASA astronauts. Maybe SEALs or other special forces. It looks like there are a few astronauts that were SEALs, one returned December 9th from the ISS. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonny_Kim https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonny_Kim
  • drewda 10mo ago
    In the US, many astronauts start as Air Force pilots. And for the preternaturally calm and confident who don't have the perfect eyesight required to enter the Air Force, many of them apparently serve instead on nuclear submarines...
  • decimalenough 10mo ago
    Jonny Kim was indeed a SEAL, and a few more things as well, with a CV almost as impressive as Johnny Sins: > American NASA astronaut, physician, U.S. Navy officer, dual designated naval aviator and flight surgeon, and former Navy SEAL. Note that "physician" here means Harvard MD.
    • throwaway2037 10mo ago
      This guy is the Chuck Norris of NASA. His Wiki page is wild.
  • themafia 10mo ago
    The point of training someone to their breaking point is not to make them immune to breaking. It's to give them experience with a realistic battlefield situation and their own physiological responses during it so they stand a basic chance when it does occur.
• manuelmoreale 10mo ago
  Somewhat related to this topic: https://youtube.com/watch?v=Zo62S0ulqhA https://youtube.com/watch?v=Zo62S0ulqhA
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• iancmceachern 10mo ago
  Totally, they put a bunch of people in those giant spinning chair things and weed out the ones that puke or freak out. Those are the astronauts, they have the right stuff.