You must be real fun at parties.....

Friend: I'm going to grab more drinks from the store

You: There are several very large assumptions implicit in that sentence

Friend: ?

You: Your car can break down, you can get in an accident on the way there, the store can be robbed and you can get shot, you may get a call about your parents dying on the way, a meteor may strike and kills us all...

I would love to party at jacquesm, we could talk about all the ways that civilization is a rube goldberg machine.

Why do you assume people assumed that? I mean, these are things that apply to every human spaceflight on any rocket in any country.

Imagine if anytime anyone spoke about spaceflight, they saw fit to include a giant disclaimer of everything that could go wrong. We'd all just end up sounding like drug commercials.

> walking to the corner store to pick up a small parcel

* You could sprain your ankle and not make it

* The parcel might have been stolen by a robber

* The corner store might be on fire

* Feral dogs might chase you to the other side of town

You forgot falling space debris

I feel like you missed the biggest risk these days: failure of preflight quarantine.

One (unmanned) mission has already been accomplished without a hitch.