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> In other words, if the odds are e.g. 1 in 10 that the trip will kill me, I don't give a shit how low the risk per mile is. The average distance to mars is ab
by Sebb767 6y ago
> In other words, if the odds are e.g. 1 in 10 that the trip will kill me, I don't give a shit how low the risk per mile is.
The average distance to mars is about 225 million km, so that would be one accident about every 2,2 billion km or 0.45 deaths per km, which is a bit deadlier than buses and 9 times as deadly as planes. Gives some perspective on how save planes actually are.
- zrobotics 6y agoYou might want to check your figures- 1 death/2.2e9 km is 4.5e-10 deaths per km. The 0.45/km figure is way out, for that to be the case there would need to be roughly 1.1billion deaths per 2.2 billion km.
- Sebb767 6y agoYes, this was in deaths per billion km - sorry, should've specified.