[Kizzy]

Originally Posted by Toy Soldier

To be fair... most of us hurtle along at 70+mph inside metal boxes on wheels every day. If you think about it too much, that seems pretty absurd...

Tragic accident though... it's not really something you would normally associate with being dangerous... but I remember a balloon coming down in a field near my house when I was about 9 or 10. No one was hurt, though.

there isn't a lot of comparisons to be drawn between the two, it doesn't seem as absurd as being suspended 1000s of meters in the air in a wicker basket to me strangely

[user104658]

Originally Posted by Kizzy

there isn't a lot of comparisons to be drawn between the two, it doesn't seem as absurd as being suspended 1000s of meters in the air in a wicker basket to me strangely

There are, going in a car only doesn't seem so strange because it's normalised. How about hurtling through the sky at 35000 feet, doing 600mph in a 200-tonne metal tube? That's also utterly insane on a logical level, and yet we're so used to it that it's just everyday stuff.