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Re:The Overview Effect – William Shatner's Words After Retur... by Rebelgecko on Wednesday October 13, 2021 @06:45PM (#28858519)
Sure, but the average car trip doesn't span millions of miles and last for months. If you compare deaths per passenger-mile, space travel is safer than cars (but more dangerous than airplanes).

Because Shatt's space trip was relatively short and quick, he's fairly safe if you extrapolate from the statistics. Of course that extrapolation might not be reasonable for various reasons:

* There's only been one deadly space incident in the last 30 years, so we don't have a very good sample size

* Not all passenger-miles are equally dangerous. Leaving and returning Earth are the most dangerous parts of space travel. However by not going to orbit, Shatt didn't have to leave Earth as quickly, nor did he have worry as much about a speedy reentry.

* Most of those passenger-miles were done on vehicles that have a launch heritage than New Shepard

Re:The Overview Effect – William Shatner's Words After Retur... by bobthepanda on Wednesday October 13, 2021 @08:00PM (#28859002)
Per mile biases in favor of high speeds though.

It would be interesting to do a comparison of deaths / travel time. Challenger exploded 73 seconds into flight.

Re:The Overview Effect – William Shatner's Words After Retur... by pirate787 on Wednesday October 13, 2021 @08:47PM (#28859318)
> * There's only been one deadly space incident in the last 30 years, so we don't have a very good sample size

The Shuttle program lost 2 out of 135 flights over its 30 year life.