On: Voyager 1 stops communicating with Earth

[AndrewKemendo]

Well, we don’t have great figures on this but there are some estimates that only 20% of the human population has ever flown on an airplane.

That seems like it’s a pretty heavily “gilded only” type of thing especially if you look at percentage distributions of flight frequency and by class.

[tobyjsullivan → AndrewKemendo]

Where are you setting the bar for something to be commonly accessible?

Only about 60% of the world’s population has reliable access to clean drinking water. 18% of people own a car.

Compared to those numbers, 20% of people flying seems downright common - especially considering many people likely never fly simply because they have nowhere worth going (relative to cost).

[AndrewKemendo → tobyjsullivan]

Yeah, it’s unconscionable that that such a small percentage of the population have access to clean, drinking water, given its triviality and creating

So yes 100% of the population having clean water seems like the low bar

As to flying, it’s probably good there aren’t more flyers