Yes I know about your book. Which I strongly disagree with the statesments you make about safety. We are no longer in the Wild West of space exploration and can’t afford to drop safety standards and loose highly skilled and trained astronauts.
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Have you actually read the book? You might learn something.
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Replying to @SafeNotAnOption @SethKurk and
When were we ever "the Wild West of space exploration"?
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Back when we launched rockets with humans on board and there was a high chance they wouldn’t return. Mercury, Gemini, Apollo, early shuttle. At least that what I refer to it as. Probably not a wide used term.
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You mean back in the olden days, when it was important to get Americans into space?
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Imagine if we had the same safety standards that early air travel had today. Millions of people will die each year. I believe getting someone to LEO should be as close to risk free as possible.
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Replying to @SethKurk @SafeNotAnOption and
This assertion betrays a complete lack of economic common sense. Everything in life involves trade-offs. Cars could have lower risk if they cost $900,000 each and had a max speed of 20 mph. In no aspect of human life do we aim for absolute safety. LEO should be no different.
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Replying to @MorlockP @SafeNotAnOption and
I know that. By risk free I mean a similar amount of risk that take when getting on an airplane or getting in our cars.
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There is no affordable way that we can currently make spaceflight as safe as commercial air travel, or even the much more hazardous travel by automobile. It's an unrealistic goal, which has held us back from space accomplishments.
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Replying to @SafeNotAnOption @MorlockP and
No. Funding and politics has held us back from returning human flight from the US. I do agree 0% risk rate is impossible but doesn’t mean we shouldn’t try to make things as safe as they can while not blowing up the price.
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"as safe as they can while not blowing up the price." this is ill-defined and sloppy in engineering and finance we quantify things with numbers. US government and industry typically values a life at $7-9 million What value do you think is appropriate? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Value_of_life …
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