Long-Term Space Travel Deemed "Pretty Safe" By Astrospace and Defense Assistant Director Robinett
For Immediate Release
Office of the Press Secretary
Contact: (999) KL5-9020
July 12, 2005
Department of Astrospace and Defense Assistant Director Todd Robinett announced today that Long-Term Space Travel had recently reached an acceptable level of "pretty safe". This safety rating meets the standards for long term travel set by the Space Travel Governing Board in 1988.
Assistant Director Robinett, who has chaired the Governing Board since July 2002, stated "All indicators show that Long Term Space travel is no longer the risk it once was. We currently seeing a major drop in the levels of danger and space evil that we had been experiencing for the past decade." Previous years' findings showed levels of "very dangerous" and "unthinkable".
"These findings are excellent and should help bolster the sagging space tourism industry," said Robinett. "The Space Travel Governing Board is very happy with these results and hopes they improve even more by next year. The Space Travel Governing Board was created in 1996 to protect Gamelandians and the Gameland travel industry from space problems. The Board also makes many of the decisions regarding travel rules and regulations - including the creation of Ruling XXI, which banned invisible tourists or tourists with invisibility cloaks from entering Gameland without written permission.
Over the past 10 years many space tourists and businessmen have found themselves under constant laser and space bug attacks because of the lack of restrictions placed on space tourism zones. Space piracy, monsters, asteroids, lasers and martians were mostly responsible for the dwindling interest in long term space travel, but Robinett says it's not just the space threats that created the problems.
"We as a people owe it to ourselves and to Gameland's economy to go to space as often as we can. It wasn't just aliens making things bad for us. It was also us," said Robinett. STGB's findings show that laser attacks are down 80% since the inception of the new anti-laser zones in November of 2004. It is still unclear whether space bug attacks have gone down because many space bugs are in their period of hibernation known as spacebugstasis.