XPost: rec.arts.sf.written, rec.arts.sf.science   
   From: David@block.net   
      
   On 1/14/2014 10:23 PM, Your Name wrote:   
   > In article , David Johnston   
   >  wrote:   
   >> On 1/14/2014 5:15 PM, Your Name wrote:   
   >>> In article , David Johnston   
   >>>  wrote:   
   >>>>>> On 1/14/2014 12:54 PM, Your Name wrote:   
   >>>>> In article , Greg Goss   
   >>>>>  wrote:   
   >>>>>> "J. Clarke"  wrote:   
   >>>>>>> In article , robban@clubtelco.com   
   >>>>>>> says...   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>>>> In fact, towards the end of the 19th century the traffic situation   
   with   
   >>>>>>>> horse-drawn vehicles was as bad if not worse than today. There are a   
   >>>>>>>> few   
   >>>>>>>> photographs and drawings around of grid lock in London and elsewhere.   
   >>>>>>>> Road accidents were also very common. No speedometers or speed limits   
   >>>>>>>> back then.   
   >>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>> And Christopher Reeve would have told you that horses are not   
   >>>>>>> particularly safe.   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>> As could Pierre Curie's widow.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> Horse travel is just as safe as any other form of transport - people   
   >>>>> have died using any of them.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> People have died using any of them does mean that they are all equally   
   >>>> safe.   
   >>>   
   >>> It means none of them are completely safe.   
   >>   
   >> Which is not the same thing as all being "just as safe".   
   >   
   > Good grief. The pedantic stupidity of the Internet strikes again. I   
   > never said it was 100% exactly the same down to the precetnage   
   > 90millionth decimal place.   
      
   That's true.  You only said they were "just as safe".   
      
      
   The point was that some people die from and   
   > some people safely use ANY and EVERY transport type.  :-\   
   >   
      
   The point is dumb.   
      
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