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[anthonyxoxo]

seems like just yesterday we were scared out of our minds. the stupid astronauts were going to kill us all, we were certain, with their plutonium-launched cassini rocket to one of saturn's moons

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[dumatt]

are those odds legitimate? or just made up like the quotes etc...

[anthonyxoxo]

those were factual odds. the quotes themselves were slightly fabricated. scary, huh?

[dumatt]

whered you find the odds?

astronauts hate numbers

[anthonyxoxo]

for anyone who was suspicious and did research back in 97, the odds were made public by scientists. here's an archive of one article.

http://www.rtis.com/reg/bcs/pol/touchstone/september97/worsham.htm

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John Pike, head of space policy at the Federation of American Scientists, says the odds of a Titan IV rocket failure during launch are "between one in 10 and one in 20." A Titan IV blew up 101 seconds after launch from Vandenberg Air Force Base in 1993. NASA estimates a one in 900 chance of an accident at launch. Before the 1986 Challenger disaster, experts had calculated the odds of a launch accident at one in 1,000,000.
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funniest part is that last line. LOLZZZ

[digthefuzz]

Space...pfff.

[anthonyxoxo]

hey man. ima add you back!

[digthefuzz]

You better...unless you wanna sleep on the couch.

[guyute]

Too long.