…put 3,000 people out to sea in virtual floating cities.
Now we have the technology today to cram 3,000
people into a (1000 ton?) mega-aircraft that could be powered by a
dozen jumbo-jet jet engines.
We already have the European Airbus 380 that can
be loaded with 850 passengers in reasonable comfort.
and flown nonstop across the Atlantic.
It is now theoretically possible for two huge jets
to take as many lives as the Titanic did.
Fortunately, space travel is still far from the point
where such grizzly statistics are possible. But this decade
may see space fatalities from one accident that can
be measured in double digits. This century we might have the
potential to see triple digit fatalities from a passenger-carrying spacecraft, but it’s still decades away.
-
It wasn't all that long ago that two jumbo jets collided on an airport runway and burst into flame. ...
-
The more complex things get the more chance of an incident. Safety systems simply count toward complexity.
The accident to ...
-
The natural engineering response to a problem is to build in a fix. But the more fixes you add, ...
-
A digression on this (not a rebuttal) over at "Flame."
-
A little known but very interesting scientifical fack. The experience in the construction industry has been that for every ...
- A really good engineer will come up with a simpler way that does the job better.
-
A digression on this (not a rebuttal) over at "Flame."
-
The natural engineering response to a problem is to build in a fix. But the more fixes you add, ...
-
The more complex things get the more chance of an incident. Safety systems simply count toward complexity.
The accident to ...