If you were on a space mission?

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Captain John Scarlett

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and there were three crew members and a goat (the highly important experiment is the goat) and to save he mission from disaster you had to jettison weight - which would go? A crew member or the goat?
Thanks avondrow - I was thinking of say Apoolo 13 where oxygen became critical - jettison one of the crew may have become necessary - thankfully it wasn't.
 
crew coz you can get another goat back to earth than to find a faithful companion for the mission
 
Captain, you need to go on a Spectrum refresher course, did they not teach you the basics? You've been to the moon and Mars!
Weight is not relevant in space, mass is. The crew members will probably have the greater mass. However, it is not easy to think of a scenario where jettisoning mass would save the mission.( the mass of crew and goat would be small compared to the mass of the craft and fuel) More likely would be the need to conserve oxygen and food. As a ruminant, the goat will be a heavy consumer and so should go, unless it is a nanny, in which case it is a source of milk and cheese!

And by the way, have you changed your name? Captain Scarlet's name was Paul Medcalf!

SIG!
 
The goat, unless the crew members had made an unpressurised legally binding contract that they would save the goat above themselves if impossible to do both. Otherwise the mission control organisation would be inundated by negative public feedback and probably closed down.

It would also make good financial sense as crew and equipment are expensive and time consuming to both train, construct and verify.
 
Well, at least the goat wouldn't protest,a crew member could wreak havoc,I would.
The goat goes.
 
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