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floating-io01/17/20251 replyview on HN

What makes you think this didn't happen in other industries? See the first iteration of the de Havilland Comet for a great example.

The Space Industry to date has killed many fewer people than planes, trains, or automobiles.


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dbspin01/17/2025

> The Space Industry to date has killed many fewer people than planes, trains, or automobiles.

Except as a proportion of passengers. In which case it's killed several of orders of magnitude more.

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