Lizard_King wrote:

Does that mean you regard any high risk, high isolation, presumably well-paid job as "indentured servitude"? Or have you mistaken Alien reruns for news reports?

Lizard_King wrote:

Otherwise known as "keeping their pyramid scheme afloat". Anyway, like you said, unless these humanists of yours are willing to foot the bill in addition to administering them, which I think we can agree is antithetical to their very nature, I don't see much of a chance of your solution coming to be.
Do you really regard the first three as wholly excluding the desirable amount of scientific exploration? Since they are pretty much the alternatives that are going to be available, have you no hope for any of them?