• @ilinamorato
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    1416 days ago

    In space exploration, 95% are terrible odds.

    • @Treczoks
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      1516 days ago

      Wherever a life depends on it, 95% are terrible odds.

      • @ilinamorato
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        416 days ago

        Great point. If motor vehicles had a 95% survival rate, there would be something like 15 million highway deaths per year in the United States.

        My point was mostly just that the Space Shuttle program had something like a 98% survival rate and it was largely considered in retrospect to have had serious safety problems.