[ExI] Two Japanese reactors on red alert

Kelly Anderson kellycoinguy at gmail.com
Tue Mar 22 06:00:08 UTC 2011


On Sat, Mar 19, 2011 at 4:22 AM, BillK <pharos at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 19, 2011 at 8:04 AM, Kelly Anderson wrote:
> As`an aside, can I suggest that you treat the 1:50,000 airplane death
> risk figure with great suspicion.  The airline industry is very
> careful in their methods of calculating risk.

Point taken. However, even if air travel is 1000 times more hazardous
than we think it is, then we still spend more money preventing airline
accidents than strokes, per death.

-Kelly




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