# Most Dangerous Means of Transportation? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [August 1, 2010, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-dangerous-means-of-transportation/548793 "2010-08-01T14:56:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 32
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> [@Chronos](#): > > Although, come to think of it, most of the miles the Shuttle travels aren’t really “traveling”, in the sense of going from a starting place to a destination. The Shuttle’s destination is just low earth orbit, which is only a few hundred miles, tops, from its starting point. So by that measure, it’s again one of the most dangerous, and might even beat motorcycles. Actually, the destination is the landing strip. Which in most cases is at KSC, only a few km from the launch pad… (This reasoning would also make the shuttle one of the slowest modes of transportation, because it usually takes 2 weeks to cross that small distance from launch pad to runway.) --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-dangerous-means-of-transportation/548793)._