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   Your Name to leszek.karlik@gmail.com   
   Re: cases where SF has predicted scienti   
   16 Jan 14 09:06:20   
   
   XPost: rec.arts.sf.written, rec.arts.sf.science   
   From: YourName@YourISP.com   
      
   In article , Leszek Karlik   
    wrote:   
      
   > On Wed, 15 Jan 2014 06:23:03 +0100, Your Name  wrote:   
   >   
   > [...]   
   > >> > 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. The point was that some people die from and   
   > > some people safely use ANY and EVERY transport type.  :-\   
   >   
   > Oh, you were serious? I thought it was sarcasm.   
   >   
   > "Everybody dies at the end, so everything is just as safe as   
   > everything else." Well, um, no.   
   >   
   > Horses are much more dangerous than even motorcycles, statistically.   
   > And motorcycles are more dangerous than cars. And cars are more   
   > dangerous than public transit. And this is all pretty basic,   
   > established knowledge.   
      
   Whatever utter crap you want to delude your tiny brain with.   :-\   
      
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