On: NASA announces Boeing Starliner crew will return on SpaceX Crew-9

[cdchn]

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 → cdchn]

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 → cdchn]

Welcome to space, it's really fucking inhospitable and will always be.