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NASA Releases Cryptic Airline Safety Data
An anonymous reader writes "NASA released part of a controversial study about air traffic safety Monday. The space agency spent $11 million on a survey of airline pilots. Agency officials were so disturbed by the findings that they intended to destroy the information rather than release it. But at an October congressional hearing, NASA administrator Michael Griffin changed tack and said the agency would release its findings. The research shows that safety problems occur far more often than previously recognized. NASA has been criticized however for not providing 'documentation on how to use its data, nor did it provide keys to unlock the cryptic codes used in the dataset.'"
This makes me afraid to fly with pilots on board. It would probably be safer if only computers flew the planes. There would also be no way to hijack a plane. I'm very scared.
I think the airlines should lobby to make me safer by having no pilots on board, then the fares would go down too.
I'm very afraid. Fire the pilots, or at least only have one on board. That would be safer.
Getting rid of my rights to a fair trial would also make me feel safer.
http://www.theonion.com/content/video/proposed_classified_bill_will
Rep. John Haller (R-PA) introduces a bill that will allocate (classified) dollars over the next (classified) years to fight flesh-eating (classified).
I'm going to print out the PDF and masturbate to it. If no-one knows how to interpret the data, I'll do it in a sexy way.
"The fight for freedom has only just begun." - Geert Wilders
That has to be the stupidest comment I've ever posted to Slashdot... and I get a "5, Insightful." WTF?
his reminds me of the time President Bush dismissed an EPA http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/06/03/tech/main510920.shtml? [cbsnews.com] Bush dismisses global warming warning on global sarming as the work of the the bureaucracy.
... eh, eh, what was that you said?
Oh yeah... that was so funny, I
I have no problem with your religion until you decide it's reason to deprive others of the truth.
You're not bending the stats correctly. Rather than saying you'll have one disaster per 100 flights, you should put it in terms of Million Miles Flown per incident.
Then classify an incident as 'unintended disassembly'.
"Draco dormiens nunquam titillandus."
... the bank angle.
The bank angle, of course, being the problem so many airlines are in financial trouble nowadays.
The higher the technology, the sharper that two-edged sword.