Cosmic Quiz

Why can't Cosmo have more quizzes like this?

Which kind of X-treme Spacer are you?

High Groundhogs

Whoever controls the spacelanes controls the world. Unless you act fast, China, North Korea and/or Iran will soon be destroying vital US orbital assets, just as the USSR did in the 1980s with its terawatt lasers. The shortest path to space is via DynaSoar, X-ray laser battle stations, and Blackstar, because the warriors know how to get things done.

Insurance Adjusters

Something wicked this way comes. It could be the next dinosaur-killer asteroid, runaway climate change, gray nano-goo, or that old standby, thermonuclear war. If your Space Ark hasn't weighed anchor by the time it arrives... game over, man.

Much Higher Consciousness

Sharing a gene pool with E.T. and 2001's Star Child, you are pecking at the shell of the cosmic egg. Once you can gaze back upon the outmoded Earth, you will be transformed. (It's not clear how, but it will be a Good Thing). No radiation shielding needed, as cosmic rays can only speed your evolution.

Free-Fall Enterprise

Space is really about unfettered growth: the New World, the Industrial Revolution, and the Heritage Foundation all in one. We should never have let Big Government get involved. You can't wait for billions in investment to start flowing, as soon as ITAR and the Outer Space Treaty are tossed on the dustheap of history. (NASA should stick around just long enough to prime the pump with COTS contracts, then commit seppuku.)

Goal Tenders

Remember the thrill of your first time? Apollo proved that only the prospect of a flag and a footprint will get us boldly going. You demand a truly inspiring new objective (ideally reddish-brown, somewhere this side of the asteroid belt). Pedantic, bean-counting concerns about a cost-effective space infrastructure will be forgotten in the glow of achievement.

Traveling Salesmen

Do people want clean energy to forestall global warming? You offer solar power satellites and lunar helium-3 (reactor extra). New frontiers to escape a globalized monoculture? Mix and match planetary settlements and O'Neill habitats. Raw materials? Zone-melted asteroids, coming soon. Whatever their future needs, your future's got it. It just happens to be in space.