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- Path: sparky!uunet!hela.iti.org!aws
- From: aws@iti.org (Allen W. Sherzer)
- Subject: Man rating again (was: Stupid Shut Cost arguements)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan7.025746.2456@iti.org>
- Organization: Evil Geniuses for a Better Tomorrow
- References: <72958@cup.portal.com> <1993Jan6.025846.15440@iti.org> <1993Jan06.165148.9581@eng.umd.edu>
- Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 02:57:46 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan06.165148.9581@eng.umd.edu> sysmgr@king.eng.umd.edu writes:
-
- >YOU say there's no need to man-rate. The astronaut community and anyone who
- >goes up on it IS going to disagree with you.
-
- Well after a successful test flight I would go up on it. I think lots of
- others would as well. Anybody with brains enough to read a test report
- and analyze risk wouldn't have any problem. I think most astronauts would
- be included in this list. The ones who don't want to go can quit.
-
- >I realize you'd like to treat people as another type of expendable, but it just
- >ain't so in the Western World.
-
- Wake up guy! The value of a human life simply isn't infinite. Look at the
- cost model for any large project. Part of it will include the costs associated
- with the people killed on the project. In fact, I'll bet that at least one
- person was killed building each of the 5 shuttle orbiters. People aren't
- expendable but nither do they have infinite value.
-
- If what you said where actually true then nobody woluld be flying
- Shuttles anyway. So if you want perfect safety, then stay home and
- leave the next frontier to the rest of us.
-
- Allen
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