would you go into space?
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um, YES!
Go to space? In a hot minute. 
My sentiments exactly!
Oh yes! I'd probably be able to handle only a short trip -- a few hours -- because testing my blood sugar and injecting insulin in zero G doesn't sound fun, but, it would be too wondrous to pass up!
I'd love to but I'm too much of a wimp to actually do it.
Yeah, I'd definitely want to go to space. Depending on the price and the time length, of course (in other words, less than $300 and somewhere between 3 hours and a day). I think it would be cool just to see the Earth from space and feel weightlessness.
Hell yeah! I've wanting to go up there since i was a kid. It would be the fulfillment of a dream.
Do you have the same reaction to getting into a car and getting on a highway? Your odds would be a lot worse.
I'd accept in a heart beat.
A few years ago, I'd jump at the chance. Now that I've got a family, I'd have to say no thank you.
Same here.
I don't have a lot of interest going into earth orbit as I don't feel I'd have much to gain from it. Seeing earth from that unique point of view is something few get to experience first hand, but I feel it would be wasted on me, because it's not something I feel strongly about.
I would have some strong reservations because I'd be wondering whether or not it is worth the risk to my life, but I believe I could handle the demands of the experience if necessary. I'm not fond of g-force, but I could easily tolerate it for the few minutes of launch. I'm not too bothered by confined spaces, as long as I can move my limbs. All in all the experience would consist mainly of things I could easily tolerate, but not particularly enjoy.
I would have some strong reservations because I'd be wondering whether or not it is worth the risk to my life, but I believe I could handle the demands of the experience if necessary. I'm not fond of g-force, but I could easily tolerate it for the few minutes of launch. I'm not too bothered by confined spaces, as long as I can move my limbs. All in all the experience would consist mainly of things I could easily tolerate, but not particularly enjoy.
No. Stuck in one of the shuttles or, godforbid on the space station?! I'd feel completely trapped.
I guess you’re not the type who’d volunteer for submarine duty, then.
I'd prefer it. At least if I had to die down there I would die on earth. At least I'd have the delusion that I could swim to the surface.
I suspect the application of Bayes Theorem wouldn't agree with your risk assessment there -- we're not talking about commercial airline travel.
What are you basing this on? Risk per unit distance? That's a pretty ridiculous way to base your risk assessment; the much more practically relevant measure would be risk per journey, and space travel is massively (by many orders of magnitude) more risky than road travel on that measure.
It's the same silly logic the airline industry uses to try to pretend that air travel is safer than car travel (it isn't, when you measure it by journey taken rather than distance travelled, which is much more relevant to all but the most frequent of frequent flyers).
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