> I would accept a 50% risk of death.
No offense but this sounds like the sayings of someone who has not ever seen a 50% of death.
It’s a little different 3 to 4 months out. It’s way different the night before and morning.
Stepping “in the arena” with odds like those, I’d say the vast, vast majority will back out and/or break down sobbing if forced.
There’s a small percent who will go forward but admit the fact that they were completely afraid- and rightly so.
Then you have that tiny percentage that are completely calm and you’d swear had a tiny smile creeping in…
I’ve never been an astronaut.
But I did spend three years in and out of Bosnia with a special operations task force.
Honestly? I have a 1% rule. The things might have a 20-30% chance of death of clearly stupid and no one wants to do. Things will a one in a million prob aren’t gonna catch ya. But I figure that if something does, it’s gonna be an activity that I do often but has a 1% chance of going horribly wrong and that I’m ignoring.
No offense but this sounds like the sayings of someone who has not ever seen a 50% of death.
It’s a little different 3 to 4 months out. It’s way different the night before and morning. Stepping “in the arena” with odds like those, I’d say the vast, vast majority will back out and/or break down sobbing if forced.
There’s a small percent who will go forward but admit the fact that they were completely afraid- and rightly so.
Then you have that tiny percentage that are completely calm and you’d swear had a tiny smile creeping in…
I’ve never been an astronaut.
But I did spend three years in and out of Bosnia with a special operations task force.
Honestly? I have a 1% rule. The things might have a 20-30% chance of death of clearly stupid and no one wants to do. Things will a one in a million prob aren’t gonna catch ya. But I figure that if something does, it’s gonna be an activity that I do often but has a 1% chance of going horribly wrong and that I’m ignoring.