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PSMF_Canuck t1_jayqd21 wrote

Reply to comment by databeautifier in [OC] All-Time Deadliest Accidents and Disasters vs. One Year of Traffic Deaths by databeautifier

Wow. TIL. Ok, that makes sense, and personally I’m fine with space rocket blowing up on the ground as counting as a space death.

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Nervous-Dark-4559 t1_jb0gedy wrote

But on this argument, what about thoes hit by meteorites?

honestly, this should be in the "accident" category

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iiSpook t1_jb0kby6 wrote

If you're going to be this pedantic you're going to have to find out how many of those "aviation" deaths weren't actively flying at the time as well. I think it's perfectly fine to categorize accidents with vehicles that were specifically meant to go to space as space-related accidents.

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DavidBrooker t1_jb1c3fl wrote

I believe the deadliest aviation disaster listed here in the above post was mostly on the ground: a KLM 747 was taking off and was only a few feet off the ground when it crashed into a Pan Am 747 that was taxiing across the runway. About six hundred people died, the Tenerife airport disaster.

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PCPooPooRace_JK t1_jb0nz10 wrote

It doesnt sit right though. Aviation is a bit less ambigious than space which suggests it involved space.

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iiSpook t1_jb0pu8j wrote

How far off the ground does a literal space rocket have to go to be considered a space-related accident then? I think Aviation is actually even more ambiguous because it could contain space travel as well as "normal" planes and all other forms of flight. Lists of spaceflight-related accidents even include training accidents. Would you say the Challenger disaster wasn't an accident that would fall into the "space" category?

As I said, extremely pedantic.

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Commercial-9751 t1_jb0qy0x wrote

That number actually does include those killed by meteorites as the number is 0.

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ArkGuardian t1_jb13chu wrote

No one has verifiably been killed by meteors in the last century at least. And sources before that are dubious. Why did you even bring this up?

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