A hard shell that unfolds like oragami will fit in a single Starship payload but expand to over 250k cubic meters of space (which seems impossible, that’s like 10 olympic pools) and offers practical solutions for many of the common engineering challenges with building long-term human habitations in orbit.

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    11 days ago

    Well, don’t lose hope. Rockets still explode in giant fireballs more often than any other form of transportation.

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        11 days ago

        Hmm… Yeah that probably applies to formula 1 as well. We’d have to do the math to know for sure, but a quick Google search says that about 3% of astronauts/cosmonauts have died during a mission. I’d be surprised if the fatality rate for race car drivers is higher than that.