Russian have always been a little further than other and especially americans when it comes to space...
Isn't it a Russian who was sent into the space for the first time?
I love that country.
I also think it is rather a new idea to sell one-way tickets to space, but the underlying idea of sacrifice for scientific purpose is quite old! New ideas have always encountered difficulties that have been overgone with victims... Think about the first pilots, or even the first attemps to fly. Thi...
dave3974 wrote:it will hardly equip them for employment will it ----yet another useless degree
With an anthopology degree or a cultural one you can't as well get a job...
or maybe teacher in college
Moreover, I am sure alien specialists could find a job in the CIA or as actor in sciance fiction!
Rubbish , pseudo science ; soy is safe it has been eaten [and tested] for thousnds of years in the east. pick on another food , how about the evil potato [ the green bit are poisonous- but you have to eat a ton of them], perhaps the chip is a new world order plot to make the working class fat and h...
I also think it is rather a new idea to sell one-way tickets to space, but the underlying idea of sacrifice for scientific purpose is quite old! New ideas have always encountered difficulties that have been overgone with victims... Think about the first pilots, or even the first attemps to fly. Thin...