In "The Saturn Game," Minamoto writes:
"No reasonable person will blame any interplanetary explorer for miscalculations about the actual environment...
"If we knew exactly what to expect throughout the Solar System, we would have no reason to explore it." (IV, p. 50)
In "Starfog":
"The sky exploded."
-Poul Anderson, "Starfog" IN Anderson, Explorations (New York, 1981), pp. 241-317 AT p. 304.
In other words, an unexpected event threatens the life of the explorer, Daven Laure.
Exactly this happens to several Andersonian explorers of space. A blog exercise would be to list them all.
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Kaor, Paul!
And any REAL explorations of this kind will come with risk and dangers. And some explorers WILL fail and die. We have to expect failures and setbacks as well as triumphs. One of the worse things that could happen to us would be the human race collectively choosing to cringe and cower in the face of danger instead of boldly accepting the reality of failure sometimes happening.
Two particularly idiotic notions I've seen is how some argue we should not go into space because it's either too expensive or because we have too many problems and messes to fix before doing so. I disagree because even our pitifully limited efforts so far has already been vastly repaid by our gains. Also, we will NEVER get off Earth if we dawdle doing so till we solve our problems--because we will ALWAYS have problems. So let's get out there!
Ad astra! Sean
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