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Nose wheel falls off Boeing 757 airliner waiting for takeoff (www.theguardian.com)
submitted 9 months ago by Womble@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world
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Because Boeing were on such a good streak already...

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[–] porcariasagrada@lemmy.ml -1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

how many car trips per day in the us? must be billions. deaths per mile* per traveler should be the metric, not number of trips.

ps: safest method of transportation is the elevator.

edit:*mile traveled

[–] TonyTonyChopper@mander.xyz -4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Elevators don't travel any distance so if anyone is hurt by one they immediately lose by your metrics

[–] porcariasagrada 12 points 9 months ago (3 children)

are you 100% sure that elevators don't travel any distance? or are we going to argue semantics over what distance is or isn't.

[–] HappycamperNZ@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Just throwing this out - do we include the altitude the plane climbs in its distance traveled?

[–] porcariasagrada 2 points 9 months ago

sure. why the hell not? lets go nuts on these data points.

[–] TonyTonyChopper@mander.xyz 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

You would need to keep track of how high airplanes fly if you did argue semantics

[–] porcariasagrada 3 points 9 months ago

in three dimensions you have three axis. all of those measure distance traveled from 0.