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Comment by pfdietz | original | SpaceX catches the Starship to end Flight 15
[−]pfdietz · 2026-11-15 Sun 16:04 UTC · link
I sure hope you're never involved in any policy decisions, as you are clearly not able to make them rationally.

Assigning a finite value to human lives (in the US, it's around $12M) is absolutely essential to evaluating policy tradeoffs.