[plug] [OT] Goodbye, Columbia

[Harry McNally]

On Sun, 2 Feb 2003 23:06:01 +0800 (WST) Mike Holland <myk at plug.linux.org.au> wrote:

> On Sun, 2 Feb 2003, Simon Scott wrote:
> 
> > In fact, the risks are pretty low. Look at what NASA achieve and how few 
> > accidents theyve had. I wonder how their safety record matches up against 
> > most of the worlds airlines
> 
> You must be kidding! Shuttle launches have maybe a 98% survival rate. 
> Anything unmanned, rather less.  Airlines - consider how many fatalities 
> in decades of Australian commercial jet travel (none?). Thats with as many 
> flights per day as the shuttles have done _ever_. >99.999% survival.

Here's some more maths on the beeb. See "How dangerous is it?" at the bottom.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/2717535.stm

Harry

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