kinda sucks that space flight is still basically dangerous... we're so used to air travel being safer than driving we forget that if you turn it up to 11 it gets dangerous again
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though I've never actually been happy with the mental model that says air travel is safer than driving... there's something off about that way of looking at it
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I think they use some metric like fatalities per passenger mile or something... possibly if you did fatalities per passenger hour, it would be not look so great, since you log a lot more miles when you fly
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but space flight is dangerous without even getting into sketchy statistics issues... the basic tech is kinda janky. Ceramic tiles for re-entry, cryo fluids in really extreme regime compressors... it's a very temperamental thing
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somebody should redo the airline fatality model until it comes out in a way that matches nervous flyer intuition that it's more dangerous (I'm not a nervous flyer for the record)... it might be a good way to combat climate change, scare people off flying around so much
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I think the airline companies are doing a pretty good job at that! Every travelers new past time is tracking cancelations and delays. 😂
Bring on the airships! I want some style back!
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