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Boeing’s Starliner started making a repeating ‘pulsing’ sound yesterday (www.theverge.com)

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[–] ilinamorato 14 points 2 months ago (1 children)

In space exploration, 95% are terrible odds.

[–] Treczoks 16 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] ilinamorato 4 points 2 months 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.