[ExI] Concerns Grow Over Conditions on Navy Carrier

[John Clark]

On Fri, Aug 14, 2026 at 10:03 AM Adrian Tymes via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:


> *> The psychological screening for astronauts is far stricter than
> thepsychological screening for deployment on a Navy carrier.*


*I think** that during a war, like Trump's idiotic Iran war, Navy fighter
pilots would be under more stress than astronauts. *


On Fri, Aug 14, 2026 at 8:09 AM BillK via extropy-chat
> <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>
> * > With all the talk about trips to Mars soon, I asked how long that
> would take. The fastest estimate was approx. 9 months going, wait 500 days,
> then 9 months back.*
>

*I don't think we should send anybody to Mars unless we are prepared to
send him one way, and we shouldn't do that if we can't even figure out how
to make a completely independent self-sufficient colony in central
Antarctica because compared to Mars the climate in Antarctica is like
Tahiti.  *


*John K Clark*


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