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I'd disagree there. Once upon a time, the sea was seen as dangerous. Everything can be made "safe" at some point.
by heliodor 15y ago
I'd disagree there. Once upon a time, the sea was seen as dangerous. Everything can be made "safe" at some point.
- philjohn 15y agoI think the families of the tens of thousands of people killed in the Japanese Tsunami last year would disagree.
- moonchrome 15y agoStill it's undeniable that progress has been made. It's incremental and there are trade-offs, in the future we could have protective domes spanning entire cities that would withstand that amount of pressure for eg.
- heliodor 15y agoYes, one day space will hurl us an asteroid and we'll be doomed. My point was regarding transportation through a given medium.
- oconnore 15y agoEvery year there are between 600 and 700 recorded deaths from recreational boating alone (not counting industrial or military accidents) [1]. No matter how safe we make it, there will always be accidents, and those accidents will kill people. [1] http://www.uscgboating.org/statistics/accident_statistics.aspx http://www.uscgboating.org/statistics/accident_statistics.as...
- tlrobinson 15y agoNothing is perfectly safe, but if you could make space travel as safe as boating then I'd say heliodor was correct.
- jcrites 15y agoExactly. The air was once dangerous as well. Now there is negligible risk to travel almost anywhere in the world within 24 hours.
- usaar333 15y agoThe most dangerous occupation in America, by fatalities, is fisherman. Yah, it's safer than it was in the past, but I wouldn't call it "safe", when compared to sitting in front of your computer.