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I guess some risk analysis can be made with the plane's and Starship's cross-section.

Let say they are cubes of 30m each. The expected area where they might both be present to be a 5km square. That's a 0.000025 chance of collision at most; and I suppose the plane is away from the center of the expected Starship Gaussian. I'd personally ride in that plane and risk that, even to just to get a glimpse of the reentry.



that.... makes a lot of sense. Thanks.

Somehow I was thinking it was super risky to be in the general area, but your numbers show that is clearly no the case.




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