Last night I caught the end of some doc about the Apollo Space Program (narrated by Tom Hanks of course), and at the end they showed a list of the people that have been killed while in the program. I saw the list and thought..."that's it?" There were 22 names. For almost half a century we have been putting people into little vehicles (the earliest of which are the size of your big-screen tv) and using outrageously combustible fuels mixed with enough energy to blow up the planet and shooting them into outer space - either to orbit around the Earth at about 25,000 mph, or to land on a moon we hoped wasn't made out of blue cheese when we got there. And only 22 people have died doing this!!!!
Number of people killed in space program: 22
Number of people killed by vending machines EVERY YEAR: 13
Wow.
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