Searching "comments":
| # | Comment | Survey |
|---|---|---|
| 21 | How to fluently read and write Japanese and Latin. All else I merely wish I had the time and the patience to learn the hard way. | What do you wish you knew? |
| 22 | I recall hearing he had been training for something like 8 months. I suspect that NASA was perhaps being a bit paranoid about his status as a "safety risk" and so don't really have a problem with it: however if it was not merely paranoia and he really was a safety risk I think he should have had to wait until such time as he was no more a risk than any other person on the shuttle. | In your opinion, should Dennis Tito have been allowed to visit the unfinished International Space Station? |
| 23 | Not to me it wasn't. First PERSON in space was a major event. Why should I care that an American happened to get up there later? Since I'm not racist I couldn't give a flying fudge about nationality; so why is this particularly significant? | Were you aware that May 6th 2001 marked the 40th Anniversary of the day Alan Shepard became the first American in space? |
| 24 | "The first Brzaillian into space would be a big deal I imagine." That would depend on how he got there. Brazil starting a space program and sending a man into space would be significant. A Brazilian getting into space would not. "Would you gloss over that one as well becuase it's not what cpountry you're from?" Could you have missed the point any further? Would I "gloss it over"? Yes. Because it's fairly insignificant: equally insignificant to someone from my own country getting into space. It would be equally insignificant if I got into space. Again I ask: why should I, someone who sees nationality as very rarely significant, care that an American, as distinct from someone from another country, got into space? Why is this significant? Why should his nationality be of any importance? I would be asking the same question if he was English or whatever. How was it "a defining moment in world history"? As opposed to one in a string of many such events, bookended by ones that were rather more important. | Were you aware that May 6th 2001 marked the 40th Anniversary of the day Alan Shepard became the first American in space? |
| 25 | It's a ranking survey... "Other" is completely and utterly useless on ranking surveys. In fact putting "Other" on here would have been a reason not to pass it. | What would be your preferred occupation? |
| 26 | I find it really odd that both in qualification and now outside of it the "best job" survey got a higher rating than the "worst job" one even though there is only one word different... | What is the best job you've ever had? Why? |
| 27 | Sadly not everyone can be human(e). | What is your position on the death penalty? |
| 28 | "An eye for an eye leaves the whole world blind." | What is your position on the death penalty? |
| 29 | Neal Stephenson, Italo Calvino, Diana Wynne Jones, Terry Pratchett, Lewis Carroll etc. etc. - same as last time. | Who is your all time favorite author? |
| 30 | "Nothing"  | Can you solve this riddle? "Name something that is better than God, dead people eat it all the time, and if we eat it, we will die. |
