Why DO we take risks???

[mike1180]

I've (at 51) cut down on my risk taking to the point that it's not borderline suicidal if that's what you mean. There's more planning now and a whole lot less of the "hold my beer and watch this" that produces so many great "fail" vids on YouTube.
About the only risks I take anymore are on the bike, and it's more just great fun (even at my horribly advanced age), than any kind of a "rush". But I do now limit it to the point that I, and my bike, can do it again tomorrow.

Yeah I am there too.
I used to be able to run on 4 hours of sleep, drink every night (to excess) and ride my dirt bike hard everyday until I broke some bone of sorts, and now I have to calm myself and realize my limits (at 57).
Still like to press the envelope, just a differnet envelope.

[Mr Bogus]

Busa's....... Sky diving....... Scuba diving..... wind surfing......Unprotected sex with 2 nympho's cause you can't take the chance they change their minds while you run for protection. Does not really matter

hey you dont have to drag my personal life into this... dang..

[WWJD]

how is this a NEW STUDY? the dopamine addiction thing has been know for decades.

[outtahand]

how is this a NEW STUDY? the dopamine addiction thing has been know for decades.

Do you really think that one study yielding one conclusion decades ago is adequate? I daresay, if you read an article that stated that only one study was conducted, then your response would be: "What? only one study? How can they understand this thoroughly after only one study?"
No, scientific conclusions are tested all the time.

Case in point, when I was a member of the Galileo Flight Team, one of the studies I worked on was an attempt to find intelligent life on earth. That sound funny? Well, we found it!

The test was conducted as part of the process of developing tests in search of intelligent life in space. It's got to start somewhere right?

If you are still with me, you may be wondering how scientists might be able to discern from a spacecraft flying by a planet whether there is life. Well, the answer is very simple. There are no straight lines in nature. The images that we collected when the Galileo flew over Antarctica yielded straight lines - buildings.

Here's the video. My part in this video was to merge the command files submitted to me by the science and engineering teams. I used this file to produce a timeline to be analyzed by myself and my team before being converted into the file that was uplinked to the spacecraft.

[Spudley]

Some get-off on cheating death or doing things that scare them to one extent or another....ME ????......I stay in the moment....risks to one, are living to another....

[Mrs. Joker]

Life is too long to sit on the couch the whole time. If you take big risks, however, they had better be carefully calculated and worked up to...

Absolutely!:agree: