I'll bite. An astronaut is basically a highly trained horse carriage passenger. Most of spaceship operations are already controlled by machines anyway, and they do it better than humans. Hell, when you see discussions about manned Mars missions, the recurring question is, "why bother with people when machines can already do it better?".
This is getting silly and if this is all you got lets just stop here.
No one is just an astronaut. Everyone who even get to get into space have some sort of profession behind them which is why they are hired to begin with.
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I'll supply astronaut instead and see you argue around how that really is just another form of 'traveler'.
I'll bite. An astronaut is basically a highly trained horse carriage passenger. Most of spaceship operations are already controlled by machines anyway, and they do it better than humans. Hell, when you see discussions about manned Mars missions, the recurring question is, "why bother with people when machines can already do it better?".
If we're going to be strict then there are two basic forms of work: thinking and moving stuff around. Everything else is a variation on those two.
Thats not even true.
Crafts are neither just thinking or just moving things around.
This is getting silly and if this is all you got lets just stop here.
No one is just an astronaut. Everyone who even get to get into space have some sort of profession behind them which is why they are hired to begin with.