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Irv

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Probably not the best time to ask this but I am curious.  If given the option, and it was free, would you go down to the Titanic in a submersible or get shot up into space in a rocket?  What's behind your answer?  They both look pretty ******* dangerous to me.  

 

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Neither.  
 

If forced to choose, probably space .. we know more about the physics and safety of leaving earth/re-entry than we do deep sea exploration. 
 

However, I have a tremendous amount of respect for those with the bravery and sense of wonder to go do those things.

 

Society is better with those people as part of it. 
 

 

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7 minutes ago, Irv said:

Probably not the best time to ask this but I am curious.  If given the option, and it was free, would you go down to the Titanic in a submersible or get shot up into space in a rocket?  What's behind your answer?  They both look pretty ******* dangerous to me.  

 

 

Don't go where you're not naturally equipped to survive.

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Definitely space. There’s at least some breathtaking views and zero gravity experience.

 

The thought about staring out into complete darkness from a cramped tiny vessel doesn’t speak to me although I am impressed by people who would do that.

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Probably should have done a poll, but I think its space easily, even if its just based on the opportunity is rarer I would imagine.

 

While I wouldnt mind either, the whole blasting off seems like it would be fun to travel that fast, and the weightlessness and views would seem to be amazing.

 

My curiosity for the deep sea stuff is there, like I want to know whats down there, the experience overall just seems like it would be worse. Cramped, not much visibility etc

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46 minutes ago, ExiledInIllinois said:

So that means I can't go to Arizona?

 

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There are civilized parts with air conditioning. There's also areas of endless gruelling desert. So yeah, there are parts I won't go to.

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3 hours ago, PromoTheRobot said:

Don't go where you're not naturally equipped to survive.

 

1 hour ago, ExiledInIllinois said:

So that means I can't go to Arizona?

 

Or Buffalo.

 

1 hour ago, PromoTheRobot said:

There are civilized parts with air conditioning. There's also areas of endless gruelling desert. So yeah, there are parts I won't go to.

 

Air conditioners and furnaces aren't natural. The fact is, humans live in climates where we aren't naturally equipped to survive, but using technology, we control the internal climate. Spacecraft and ocean vessels are just extensions of climate-control technology. When something goes wrong with the technology, the result can be death, as in the people who die during heatwaves or deep freezes because power is out. 

 

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1 hour ago, PromoTheRobot said:

 

There are civilized parts with air conditioning. There's also areas of endless gruelling desert. So yeah, there are parts I won't go to.

Whatever doesn’t know lol you makes you stronger. Or so they say.

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3 hours ago, Limeaid said:

Deep sea.  Not sure I could withstand the G forces of liftoff.

Not in that little craft which is probably lost though.

In a bathyscaphe - I have been in once when working.  Did not go very deep however.

 

The forces at liftoff are not that great.

 

Space for me, but not the way it is now.

I am more an a Apollo era guy. 

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