Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!samsung!umich!yale!cmcl2!lanl!lambda!crs
From: crs@lambda.UUCP (Charlie Sorsby)
Newsgroups: comp.robotics
Subject: Re: Divert NASA budget to robotics
Summary: shuttle vs. automobiles
Message-ID: <14446@lambda.UUCP>
Date: 20 Jul 90 13:39:50 GMT
References: <2787@dftsrv.gsfc.nasa.gov> <18608@ttidca.TTI.COM> <9954@pt.cs.cmu.edu>
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In article <9954@pt.cs.cmu.edu>, gerry@cive.ri.cmu.edu (Gerry Roston) writes:
> In article <KAS.90Jul18175627@casandra.cs.aber.ac.uk> kas@cs.aber.ac.uk (Kevin Sharp) writes:

> to him (Heck, he volunteered didn't he?), the affect on the public is
> tremendous, especially given that our media tends to blow such things
> way out of proportion.
 
Yep!

Compare the media "coverage" of the 3 astronauts killed with that
of the 40 to 50 *thousand* killed in motor vehicles *each year*.

This is a simplistic comparison if one considers only absolute
numbers of participants.  Consider it in terms of participant-miles
and it becomes, I believe, rather less simplistic.

Best,

Charlie Sorsby						"I'm the NRA!"
	crs@lanl.gov
	sorsby@pprg.unm.edu