Space Tourism Module Replies at least for now

Passenger jets have about a 1 in 2,000,000 failure rate.

> Mike Combs Wrote:
>> On the other hand, I suppose someone could make the point that there
>> probably
>
>> aren't many passenger jets flying with a 1% failure rate.

The dinosaurs were destroyed by an asteroid because they weren't
space-faring. It's almost as if Gaia then thought "Well, dinosaurs
worked pretty well, but space-faring is necessary. Maybe I'll should
try mammals this time." Humanity is now developing systems to detect and
deflect asteroids, and could build orbital space colonies to spread
beyond Earth to insure life would survive a planetary catastrophe.

Al Globus
CSC at NASA Ames Research Center
http://www.nas.nasa.gov/~globus/home.html