Birds don't need airports, don't need expensive maintenance every N hours of flight, they run on seeds and bugs found everywhere that they find themselves, instead of expensive poisonous fuel that must be fed to planes by mechanics, they self-replicate for cheap, and the noises they produce are pleasant rather than deafening.
I mean, via bird flu, even conservative estimates show there have been at least 2 million deaths. I know, I know, totally different things, but complex systems have complex side effects.
Birds are more complicated than jet engines, but jet engines travel a lot faster.
Birds don't need airports, don't need expensive maintenance every N hours of flight, they run on seeds and bugs found everywhere that they find themselves, instead of expensive poisonous fuel that must be fed to planes by mechanics, they self-replicate for cheap, and the noises they produce are pleasant rather than deafening.
Jet engines don't go anywhere without a large industry continuously taking care of all the complexity that even the simplest jet travel imply.
They also kill a lot more people when they fail.
I mean, via bird flu, even conservative estimates show there have been at least 2 million deaths. I know, I know, totally different things, but complex systems have complex side effects.
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Is birdflu the failure mode?