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> The astronaut angle is just stupid clickbait.

It's not an "angle" and it's definitely not clickbait -- they're excerpts from a book written by an astronaut.

> the most common life-or-death decision made by people reading this is how much attention they pay while driving.

Yes, sure, they should pay attention while driving, but why can't they also learn lessons from astronauts?

> managed to survive in a space-can[1] > [1] I don't mean to belittle astronauts

Sorry, it feels like you are. There's a lot of interesting and useful lessons in the article and the book, and you're kinda dismissing it just because it's from an astronaut.




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