• Etterra
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      3 months ago

      fLyiNg iS tHe SaFesT wAy tO TrAveL

          • CaptainBlinky@lemmy.myserv.one
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            3 months ago

            Which I am, because pretty much everything leads to death eventually. I’m not a super being that can calculate the number of deaths directly resulting from an airplane flying in a given day.

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          3 months ago

          When the traffic density for planes is the same as the traffic density of cars within say 100 miles of airports, then I’ll take that statistic seriously.

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            3 months ago

            What an odd thing to say… “If conditions would be completely different the statistics would be different, therefore I don’t trust the statistics”. What’s your point exactly?

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              3 months ago

              If the circumstances were similar, not just different.

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          3 months ago

          The difference here is that pilots are rigorously trained and go through constant continuing trainings and recertifications, while someone who wants a driver’s license effectively needs to prove they have a pulse and can read at a second grade reading level (at least here in the US). If we actually cared about road safety, we’d raise the bar for a driver’s license.