{"id":704,"date":"2013-06-30T17:33:54","date_gmt":"2013-06-30T17:33:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/factualfiction.com\/marsartists\/?p=704"},"modified":"2013-07-01T02:27:27","modified_gmt":"2013-07-01T02:27:27","slug":"joe-mascaro-risky-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/marsartists\/2013\/06\/30\/joe-mascaro-risky-business\/","title":{"rendered":"Joe Mascaro “Risky Business”"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n“So let me get this straight, NASA. You’re telling me that the greatest adventure in the history of the human species — the most awesome voyage ever embarked upon by humankind — you’re saying that that’s dangerous?<\/p>\n

Well gosh, NASA, isn’t that what we signed up for?<\/p>\n

NASA says that the radiation levels on a single 500-day trip to Mars exceed their lifetime limits for astronauts. All told, the trip would entail about a 3-percentage-point increase in terminal cancer risk.<\/p>\n

Here’s another safety tip: If you set sail from Europe under Magellan, Cartier or Jones, your odds of dying of scurvy were probably no better than a coin flip.<\/p>\n

Here’s another: If you picked up the flag of the United States of America and carried it into battle in 1941, you had a 1 in 50 chance of not ever having children. Of not ever growing old.<\/p>\n

But it gets worse: If you stepped onboard a Space Shuttle in the 1980s, your odds of losing consciousness in a massive inferno of solid rocket fuel and jagged metal, and then crashing into the Atlantic Ocean were about 1 in 24. If you were a school teacher, your odds of death were 100 percent.”<\/p>\n

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“So let me get this straight, NASA. You’re telling me that the greatest adventure in the history of the human species — the most awesome voyage ever embarked upon by humankind — you’re saying that that’s dangerous? Well gosh, NASA, isn’t that what we signed up for? NASA says that the radiation levels on a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-philosophy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/marsartists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/marsartists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/marsartists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/marsartists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/marsartists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=704"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/marsartists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1461,"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/marsartists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704\/revisions\/1461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/marsartists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/marsartists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/marsartists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}