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“If yoy make an exception for astronauts, where do you draw the line?”

Well, a very good point here. And I think it is similar to those who say that the military will take any kind of risks yet NASA cannot and/or will not, be it for health or for space systems (e.g. Launch Abort System).

I suppose you could coldly correlate the “value” of a human life to “education”, “achievements”, “usefulness to society”, etc… and come up with a system that tells you where to draw the line so to speak. A very scary thought if you ask me but it also is something that happens all the time, just that people won’t say it.

My understanding is that family data is useful in longitudunal cancer risk studies. Since some of the suspected damage from space flight is genetic, that makes sense.

Still, it all seems like a stretch to me. Plenty of people in government take certain health risks in order to serve the public. The military and law enforcement are obvious ones, but how about folks in jobs that require them to be outside a fair amount, exposing them to the risks of skin cancer? What about drivers, who have to inhale a fair amount of fumes? etc. etc. etc. I don’t see that taking such risks should result in health care for life for the individual and his/her family. If yoy make an exception for astronauts, where do you draw the line?

We must have the same brand of tin foil hat, because I also heard there is no oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, there is no flooding in Nashville, Ares I is on time and under budget with no serious technical issues and that Jesus is returning to the Earth in 2012 to rapture us faithful into another dimension….

Grabbing the Tambourine and trying to do my best Rev. Al Sharpton imitation from Boston Legal

“Thank God Almighty Thank God Almighty and one last one for Denny Crane Thank God Almighty”

Robert G. Oler

Dang, come back any time. That was the funniest thing I’ve read in days.