[ RadSafe ] National Academies Project: Toxicological and Radiological Effects from Exposures to DepletedUranium During and After Combat

[Otto Raabe]

At 09:43 AM 11/17/2006, dckosloff at firstenergycorp.com wrote:
>No, it is obviously not safe to fly on a commercial airline flight.  Not
>only that, but it is not safe to be on the ground while commercial
>airliners are being flown.
>Any kind of human flight is inherently unsafe and no amount of effort can
>make it safe.  It can only be made less dangerous.
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I guess you meant to write, "Any kind of human activity is inherently 
unsafe and no amount of effort can
make it safe." or maybe "Any kind of human activity is inherently dangerous 
and no amount of effort can
make it not dangerous."

To me "safe" means "not dangerous".

Safe doesn't mean that some specific isolated risk is equal to zero, but 
only that it is exceedingly small.

Otto





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