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Re:Relativistic Spaceship by denton-scratch on Tuesday February 06, 2024 @05:48AM (#39272937)
> 10-20% of current astronauts would be willing to sign up.

Astronauts seem to me to have a higher propensity for kookiness than the general population. You may be right.

Re:Relativistic Spaceship by eru on Wednesday February 07, 2024 @12:14AM (#39284774)
Yes. There's currently way more people who want to be astronauts, than people who can be astronauts. So you get some extreme selection effects; and those tend to bring out weird people.
Re:Relativistic Spaceship by denton-scratch on Wednesday February 07, 2024 @04:27AM (#39286397)
I was really thinking of astronauts who have actually been to space; I wonder whether the experience disposes people to kookiness. I suspect that trainee/aspiring astronauts might suppress their kookiness.