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Going on a spaceship is probably safer than driving a car.

• qgin 9mo ago
  Being an astronaut is about 50x more risky than riding in a car
  • yesitcan 9mo ago
    Over what time period?
  • 9991 9mo ago
    You know what they say: the most dangerous part of space flight is the car ride to Cape Canaveral.
• ben_w 9mo ago
  Per mile, sure. Per launch? I think the "everyone died" rate is about, what, 1.2% of crewed launches?
  • yesitcan 9mo ago
    Not a good sales pitch for commercial space flights
    • yurishimo 9mo ago
      While I’m confident we will probably have large scale commercial spacecraft in my lifetime, I suspect I will be long retired by then. I’m 31. We need a decade of accident free autonomous launches before humans will line up in mass to visit space like a Carnival Cruise.
      • grvbck 9mo ago
        Don't dismiss the yearning for space/new frontiers/adventure that a lot of us have. If you offered tickets to the moon today for the price of a cruise, you would probably have people standing in line from Cape Canaveral to Tallahassee.