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RE: Can we have safer commercial air travel if parachutes are present?

in #stemng6 years ago

So much to chew in this post though. Humor and facts intertwined.

There's no way hundreds of people will jump from a descending air craft, it's just so funny as it looks. Aside the phobia (which definitely will play a big role), we probably will expect them to drop at intervals, at least, one person at a time. so, considering the speed with which the air plane will be descending, probably just a small percentage of them will be able to jump before the minimum altitude allowable for a safe landing is reached.

Also, cost as you mention will be a big constraint considering the big odds of a possible crash. Nobody willl ever want to spend that much one parachutes just to except a crash whose probability of occurrence is so tiny. I ll rather build hostels in all Nigerian tertiary institutions and await alerts from house rents!

I've learned a lot here:

  • hypoxia
  • babariga (carcked me!) - how is that its name!
  • aviophobia

The facts too - O lit!

The detachable aircraft will really be cool

Nice knowing we are thinking in the same way, I'm working on something related

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Thanks for the compliment, we all try to make science great again :)