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this post was submitted on 19 Feb 2024
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Even if you were to ride an amusement park rollercoaster every single day for the rest of your life, you would be a couple magnitudes more likely to die on the car ride to or back from the park than by a malfunction of the attraction. Most malfunctions will result on the car stopping on an horizontal section then getting evacuated on foot, and that would be scary but you wouldn't be in any danger. You are in greater danger of harm or death stepping into a bathtub for a shower than on a rollercoaster cart riding at 120 km/h and pulling some Gs. Humans suck at intuitively assessing risk.
Yes - I know all of that. And it doesn't make the slightest difference.
You're not THE Wat Dabney? The inventor of the inverted firkin?!
The very same.
Homo sapiens is good at building rollercoasters, not probability especially vis‑à‑vis emotion. And they aren’t very good at rollercoasters either.