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Climbing the Everest has a 1:10 chance of death, yet many people try their luck every year. It's the same thing.
by gregschlom 8y ago
Climbing the Everest has a 1:10 chance of death, yet many people try their luck every year. It's the same thing.
- TulliusCicero 8y agoFair, although I feel like with Everest, the fact that it's so risky is part of the point. Like, if hiking up Everest was perfectly safe, would people still treat it as some huge accomplishment?
- TaylorAlexander 8y agoI feel like you’re implying things are different with space flight, but I feel like they’re the same, no?
- doyoulikeworms 8y agoI think Copenhagen Subobital might agree with you :) > When Edmund Hillary was asked why he wanted to climb Mount Everest he replied: “Because it’s there”. https://copenhagensuborbitals.com/about-us/ https://copenhagensuborbitals.com/about-us/