Good post.

All the flaws people point out about it just made me engage with it more and I learned things I didn't know before. Even if you take out the piece of data about traffic it was interesting to see how the worst disasters in each category compare.

And I think the point you tried to make was that even some of our worst singular disaster experiences pale in comparison to the graveyards that roads are on a continued basis. And it's not like that's new information but we often just shrug it of as part of vehicular transport when there could be so much we could do to make it safer. Something we aren't able to do with most of the grand disasters yet road safety often isn't the most pressing issue in people's minds. I personally have two changes I would like to make immediately to make roads safer, if I could.

Damn, you really chose being a prick over clicking a single link. Took me less than thirty seconds to "dig" into the source to answer your dumb ass question.

How far off the ground does a literal space rocket have to go to be considered a space-related accident then? I think Aviation is actually even more ambiguous because it could contain space travel as well as "normal" planes and all other forms of flight. Lists of spaceflight-related accidents even include training accidents. Would you say the Challenger disaster wasn't an accident that would fall into the "space" category?

As I said, extremely pedantic.

I'm pretty sure you can whip up the graph you would like to see in a few minutes by yourself.

Did you look at this post for more than two seconds? OP provides sources and the source lists aviation accidents. Do you think 9/11 falls under the category of "an accident"?

OMG That's soooooo true, just how we all died in 2012 when the world ended.

Read it again.

What's the agenda?

They are distinguished by the location they are formed at. It's like calling a meteorite and an asteroid the same thing. Well, yes, technically they are but we (as in actual smart people) decided it was worth making a distinction between them.

If you're going to be this pedantic you're going to have to find out how many of those "aviation" deaths weren't actively flying at the time as well. I think it's perfectly fine to categorize accidents with vehicles that were specifically meant to go to space as space-related accidents.

Damn, that's so cool. Thanks, man.

Oh, wow, I did indeed assume it was radial. So cool to hear they can actually precisely aim it. I do understand that you can't compare sound waves in water to air directly, I was just asking for a rough ballpark and you did deliver.

Follow-up question out if interest, if you allow. If I was next to one and they aimed the "beam" away from me, would I hear nothing or just a faint noise or something like that?

Thanks for your initial reply.

You got an approximate decibel value to make it easier to imagine?