

The word necessary has a lot of wiggle room here. What are necessities? Going by the bare minimum:
- food
- water
- protection from the elements
- protection from illness/infection
- continuation of the species
That’s about everything we truly ‘need’ to die of old age and not go extinct. Nearly everything people currently do is a subset of those needs. Space exploration can be marked under both protection from the elements and continuation of the species.





I read the article and I don’t quite see the line they took to get that gamers are the target applicants they want…
Was it just the ability to sit in a chair and watch a screen for 8+ hours a day?
Was it the outliers like those half dozen people who have platinum’d crimson desert already?
The people who play rage bait being able to handle without cracking under direct pressure?