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Sure, ignoring past failures can always make someone on a winning streak look invincible. But calculating the underlying odds to hit even a 200 long winning streak with the observed failure rates on other systems wouldn’t be particularly unlikely.

These systems all are quite good, and they have tended to get better over time.



There's no evidence that anything other than Ariane 5 and Falcoln 9 are "quite good"




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