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GoySauce ago

I'm no stats expert but my guess is if you took a random group of people connected by employer and asked what are the odds 74 would be dead within two years (assuming they're not all super old) I would think it would be incredibly small. Of course that depends largely on how many people the employer had to begin with. I don't know how big NASA is so there's that.

TwitterBannedIt ago

Worked for big tech company for 5 years.

No one died. Not one.

GoySauce ago

That in and of itself is anomalous dude. I'm thinking there is something going on here. Maybe clandestine life extension tech? Anything you want to share homie? Don't be a selfish fuck.

(Bah, who am I kidding? No way I want to be here any longer than absolutely necessary.)

TwitterBannedIt ago

Was agreeing with you that it is probably uncommon for 74 to die in 2 years at a large tech company. Didn't say it was groundbreaking. Just throwin it out there.

They dont share life extension tech with the midlevel engineers.

GoySauce ago

Somebody mentioned that NASA has 17000 employees so I concluded (without doing the math) that it was probably not a conspiracy. I was was just having some fun with your statement - I don't really think it's anomalous.

They dont share life extension tech with the midlevel engineers.

Well damnit man, they should. Who is going to oversee the maintenance of the technology that allows them to live beyond their normal lifespans?

TwitterBannedIt ago

Many NASA workers are scientists and engineers. But people there hold many other jobs, too, from secretaries to writers to lawyers to teachers.

Never a straight answer.

This is getting kind of ridiculous if you think about it, all we are wanting to know is the number of direct hire employees actively involved in the space program, and we get answers like this:

https://www.nasa.gov/audience/forstudents/5-8/features/nasa-knows/what-is-nasa-58.html

Try googling the topic and we get the same 17,000 number, over and again, each time with the implication "they dont all do nasa type stuff".

Well holy fuck, forget wondering about the moon landing, you'd be lucky to figure out who was a spaceman and who is the lunchlady.

I feel like this employment numbers revelation made me trust them less, not more. Shifty fuckers.

GoySauce ago

The moon landing, lol. I don't buy it anymore. A good scientifically minded site that blows that fairy tale out of the water : Aulis.com.

Jay_Mac ago

NASA has 18.000 employees.... there is nothing here.

JastheMace ago

Total but how many scientists? You didn't read the article, it clearly says, "What they had in common was that all of them were outstanding engineers or medical experts and all of them lost their life under questionable conditions"

Jay_Mac ago

It fucking NASA I think they have a few engineers and scientists there. About 18,000.

Charlez6 ago

It's NASA. Not the corner store. Of course they're going to have a lot of outstanding scientists and engineers.

And this list goes back to 2004. 74 deaths in 14 years for a workforce of that size is surely within normal bounds.

satisfyinghump ago

Did you do your calculations with the important "jeuden" variable? Whenever that variable is added into any equation, these sorts of things happen more often...

GoySauce ago

A key variable left out, I'll concede. Also CIA, but I repeat myself.