<OT> oh, my

[Kurt Wall]

In a 1.1K blaze of typing glory, Matthew Carpenter wrote:

> And like colonization of old, the first trips to the "new land" are 
> frought with danger.  Only with more travel and some work and sacrifice 
> was safe-travel assured... and even then we still have more automobile 
> accidents than airplane accident deaths... and I would imagine the auto- 
> to space- accidents are in a similiar comparison pattern.
> 
> Stop talking about danger.  Just ask for volunteers.  I would place bets 
> on the availability of many individuals who would be willing to take the 
> risk... some of them are called Astronauts.

Ayup. I'd sign up immediately. It's a no-brainer for me. Then again, 
as *I'm* a no-brainer, I'm probably disqualified. :-)

Kurt
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