Space Opinions Survey

[True Blue Door]

25. Secondary questions.

"[quote]6. What priority should exploring each of the solar's systems worlds have in sequence? Whatever science thinks is practical.[/quote]"

Science, bless its heart, tends to prefer the things that are most interesting to scientists, not necessarily to the rest of us. If it had to choose, it would rather have a colossal gravity wave observatory to tell us about the first 0.0000000002th of a second of the Big Bang through abstract data-gathering than get awesome pictures of other planets. Both are useful, but I want my purty pichers.

"[quote]8. Beyond the Moon and Mars, where should human beings visit next, and why? Mars, it is next on the list.[/quote]"

The question was beyond Moon and Mars, what would be next?

"[quote]Zero, but we can only work toward making it zero.[/quote]"

But I asked for an "acceptable" death rate, not an "ideal" one. Zero death rate means you don't go. And not even that, really, because there's a death rate just being on the ground doing nothing.

"[quote]12. At what point is space safe enough for children? A long time in the future, unless the future hits the wall.[/quote]"

But what conditions would you stipulate for space being safe enough for children?

"[quote]13. Where do you want to go? In an urn on the shelf of the cabinet my husband made for our son.[/quote]"

Where in the solar system?