Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] space shuttle explodes?

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On Sat, Feb 01, 2003 at 08:22:33PM -0600, Jonathan King wrote:
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> On Sat, 1 Feb 2003, Mike Miller wrote:
> 
> > I think maybe 114 total.  2/114 = 1.75%
> > 
> > That's more risk than I'd like to take.  So if I'm ever invited to fly on
> > a space shuttle, I'll decline!
> 
> That's a pretty easy risk not to take.  But the real problem here is that
> we have no reason to believe that the risk isn't at least this high, very
> little reason to believe the shuttle will ever be intrinsically safer
> after this (this is a mature technology; it's just not very safe), and
> very little reason to resume our manned space program in the near term.  

I'd say the 3 people currently in residence in the ISS would be a good reason
to resume manned space flight in the very near term...

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