DeeKnow’s Grotto

Speaking of safety, I was reading a page by Derek Millar that discusses the danger of being an astronaut, "with 34 deaths out of 450 spacefarers, we have a 7.5% death rate.....So being an astronaut or cosmonaut is well over 60 times as dangerous as logging, and has nearly twice the fatality rate as climbing the world's highest mountains". Thats one hell of a game of Russian-roulette, or should it be American-Roulette

2:46:37 PM  

strong words from a Time magazine contributor in an article on Sunday that criticises the shuttle program, specifically its ageing fleet, vast expense and safety 'issues', and suggesting that the international space station only exists to give the shuttle something to fly to, and that shuttles only exist to support the space-station, a convenient 'dependency'.

2:43:44 PM  

According to an article at Wired... "The president wants to fund untested, unproven programs that seek to pray away addiction," said the Rev. Barry Lynn, executive director of Americans United for Separation of Church and State. "People with addiction problems need medical help, not Sunday school."

2:33:27 PM