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Comment Re:Built-in resuscitator, please (Score 1) 83

Wouldn't it be much more expedient to only allow those who don't worry about such things to go into space? This really is such a low priority issue it is almost laughable. There is so much more important survival factors to focus research on instead of wasting it whether someone with undected artheroscralosis survives.

Comment Re:huh (Score 1) 83

None have diied of a heart attack so far, and there's no reason for the great unwashed to fund research/technology to handle some future hypothetical event. If that's an issue for you, simply don't volunteer. No one has ever been forced onto a ride to space, non-humans excluded.

Exactly! It way too early to worry about anything except perhaps to screen out those most likely to have an MI during spaceflight.

Comment Prescreening still best (Score 1) 83

At this stage of the game it would probably make more sense to limit space travel to those with the lowest risk factors rather than waste money on treatment. First and foremost, research today should be 100% geared to how to successfully and consistently move humans from this planet to another. Treatments for the less than healthy can wait until that is accomplished.

Comment Pain and suffering (Score 2) 284

The same could be said for human pain and suffering. How many people today would be alive if someone else didn't suck the life out of them to increase their own wealth? Whether under the guise of Democracy, Communism, or Facism, those who seek personal gain suck something from someone. They have to because, in order to profit they have to have someone to profit from.

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