OT a bit - fly to the moon or Mars?

No really a bad thing, it just seems that the chance of surviving a
mistake
or a bout of Murphys Law has risen exp

The risks to survival have increased, as have our models for
predicting those risks... seems to be a fair tradeoff to me.

Hell... exploring space might even make us accept the near 50%
mortality risks that our predecessors who settled our world faced...
I just pray that we accept that risk before the instinct of those of
us who are willing to take it are bred out of the population...
because only then are we truly damned to an existence of
insignificance.