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Sailboats were pretty well understood by then and in contrast to rockets there is much less potential for catastrophic failure.
by pantalaimon 1y ago
Sailboats were pretty well understood by then and in contrast to rockets there is much less potential for catastrophic failure.
- buellerbueller 1y agoAt least two orders of magnitude wrong, if we are talking about human death. A 50% death rate from scurvy alone was assumed. https://www.sciencehistory.org/stories/magazine/the-age-of-scurvy/ https://www.sciencehistory.org/stories/magazine/the-age-of-s...