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Transits involving humans would be safer than current practices, whereby astronauts must accept a nonnegligible risk to their lives with each launch.

From Scientific American • Nov. 25, 2022

So what I end up with is basically Martin Weitzman’s argument: it’s the nonnegligible probability of utter disaster that should dominate our policy analysis.

From New York Times • Apr. 7, 2010