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cdchn
11 months ago
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NASA announces Boeing Starliner crew will return o...
Its kind of grim to think a trip to the ISS has a 1:270 chance of death just from the unavoidable roulette of getting zinged by a micrometeroid.
schiffern
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1/270 is the total risk from all causes. Just the risk from micrometeoroids would be (at most) 1/270 - 1/500, which is roughly 1/587 (0.17%).
mrguyorama
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Welcome to space, it's really fucking inhospitable and will always be.
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