Frank S
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Re: How "New Scientist" robbed me
Posted:
Jul 7, 2011 4:03 PM
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"R H Draney" <dadoctah@spamcop.net> wrote in message
news:iv4l7v01d14@drn.newsguy.com...
> IAP filted:
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>>On Jul 6, 7:10=A0am, abzorba <myles...@yahoo.com.au> wrote:
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>>> the correct statistical measure to employ is not
>>> "millions of passenger kilometers travelled" but =A0 "millions of
>>> passenger hours elapsed" - - All the author of this
>>> tome had to do was substitute hours for kilometers, and so derive the
>>> new and far more accurate figures for risk. In the new analysis, air
>>> travel is far less safe, much less so than trains, and about as safe
>>> as traveling in cars.
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>>So, by the ratio deaths per hour, what would be the safest way to
>>travel? Pram? Perhaps not, they get run over by cars. Staying put
>>would probably be as safe as you can get, but does it count?
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> What's the recent accident rate per passenger-hour for zeppelin
> travel?...r
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Couldn't say for the general zeppelining public, but on this day it was
probably pretty low - in the San Francisco area at any rate.
http://home.comcast.net/~bzee1b/Zeppelin/Zeppelin.html
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Frank ess
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