Won't someone please think of the empty lots?!?!

And we were all thinking it was the oil companies funding the astro-turf, but I think you're onto something. Those sneaky fucking canucks...

Or like the time the gov't stopped me from using Agent Orange in my backyard. I had to go buy roundup instead and that shit is expensive. So what if some little shitheaded brats get cancer in twenty years, not my fucking problem!!!! My quality of life took a serious dip there.

The tigers got swept

It's the same way God planted Dinosaur bones to test our faith...

You're right! It's not possible! Besides, it's not like someone's already come up with a tool that can reproducibly retrieve the outlined info screenshots or anything....

Ok, so I know he's fairly well known, but good god y'all Jack Vance is awesome and is underappreciated imo.

I also have to agree with those above who say Cordwainer Smith.

Dragons!!!

Aye, the buttery topin' in Tortuga be runnin' low, argh. Soon I'll only have me grog to put on me popcorn while watching a cam of the back'o some landlubber's seat! A pirate's life for me!

Yeah but when nibiru comes back around, we'll be up a planet and then who'll be laughing?

Um, you were looking for an example of a hydrogen explosion and you picked Fukushima?

The thing about producing H2 from water is there's nothing to ship. A power facility only needs a source of clean water, and some reclamation of that might be possible. Certainly running H2 around in pipes under pressure when there's water EVERYWHERE is unnecessary, or at least less efficient than deploying sufficient amounts of these reactors, or just transmitting power.

The Shoggoths wipes out the Elder Things

It was Adam and Eve not Adam and Nemo!

Your confusing the micro and macro views.

Your post can be reduction ad absurdum'd to "Well, our murder count for the year is low, so let's let this murderer go free".

From a marco view, I agree. 17 lives lost for 50 years of space exploration is not too bad. Comparing it with pioneering days is a bit apples and oranges, but overall I would say NASA is decidedly more risk-averse than the English Gov't was wrt their explorers in the 1500's.

From a micro view, i.e. viewing the Challenger disaster in a vacuum, it was the result of mismanagement and arrogance. It had avoidable errors and the mgmt mentality that led to this should be guarded against.