Sean Schouten wrote: > I just don't believe in "superior safety".... I'm sorry! I'm not sure what you mean. Certainly some things are more safe than others. It's certainly possible, for example, to go back and compute the fraction of person-flights where the person got killed for the space shuttle and for other space craft like the Apollo or Soyuz. If that fraction is significantly lower for the space shuttle, then how can you say it doesn't have superior safety? ***************************************************************** Embed Inc, embedded system specialists in Littleton Massachusetts (978) 742-9014, http://www.embedinc.com -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist