Space travel: more dangerous than Klingons?
The space travel bandwagon is being promoted by agents and travel-tour companies, raising questions of how hazardous it is? The answer: very hazardous.
“Space is littered with lithic debris, and a collision with a particle no bigger than a pebble could well be catastrophic,” said book critic Richard B. Woodridge.
He was reviewing in the New York Times a new book, The Hazards of Space Travel: A Tourist’s Guide. Author and astrophysicist Neil F. Comins points out the many varied ways travelers could die in space.
He described the book as “an original and sobering book—part fictional spaceship log, part nuts-and-bolts survival manual.” The book, he notes, “warns of mundane dangers out there to mind and body far more serious than power-mad Klingons or homicidal computers.”
And if that’s not enough to make some would-be travelers reconsider, this was the description of what space travelers might expect from one tour operator:
“The G-force surge will push the clients back into their seats as they head into the darkness of space to an altitude of 70 miles (110km) above the earth’s surface. When the rocket motor shuts down, all passengers, who by this stage are officially ‘astronauts’, will experience the silence of space, and majestic views (of) earth as they float around the large cabin in zero gravity.”
Report by David Wilkening
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