John wrote:

While ad-libs during EVA have been accomplished many times with a
really good rate of success, they come with risks. I am a little
surprised given your previously stated aversion to risk, that you
would have suggested the idea.

I'm not surprised at all. Bbo has strong aversion to risk but has
demonstrated little to no ability to rationally weigh risks. He has, on
multiple occasions, proposed mitigating risks by means even riskier than
the original risk - sometimes, as he has admitted openly, merely in the
name of "PR". It is not likely he does so out of hypocrisy because that
would require having the intelligence to realize the gap between his
stated values and his stated means. Whatever. I've long given up trying
to figure out what combination of idiocy and hypocrisy motivates him.