Hello! Food Safety specialist and sanitarian here. I can assure you there were plenty more food borne illness related deaths but they’re often mistaken for other illnesses or go unreported. The death toll estimated by the FDA and CDC is closer to around 3,000 deaths per year from food borne illnesses.

If you're going to be this pedantic you're going to have to find out how many of those "aviation" deaths weren't actively flying at the time as well. I think it's perfectly fine to categorize accidents with vehicles that were specifically meant to go to space as space-related accidents.

The elevator was already 1,676 meters deep when it fell 400m. Holy cow, that's a crazy tall elevator

Yes, I think we're as likely going faster than the speed of light as we are beating the Betz limit

Exactly my point, so it dilutes the data, and gives misleading impression.

Unique display, good use of color and gradients. Communication very clear and intuitive.

Really got people discussing nuances right away which I think is a great measure of success.

Nicely done!

Sorry, neighbor, I wasn't clear: the deadliest radiation disaster listed in the Wikipedia list OP used as a source is the 1957 Mayak storage tank explosion. Chernobyl is third on that list

But on this argument, what about thoes hit by meteorites?

honestly, this should be in the "accident" category

Ohhh, wait a few more years until the glaciers melt.... even more...

How would you normalize this to factor in demand? Lots of windy days where there is no demand and also windless days with high demand. Wind speed and peak demand aren't correlated.

You sure that aviation # is in the right category? Pretty sure >600 people were in planes just on 9/11

The turbines are designed to handle specific wind speed ranges. So once you get outside the design envelope you are going to get little to no power generation.

Noah’s flood killed everyone but a dozen people? Should be bigger?

Would have been good to add War.

>or are all those low-density outliers above the red line causing it to appear higher up?

Pretty much this. Least squares regression is sensitive to outliers.

Possible but difficult to say because the figures were hidden by the USSR at the time. However, some of the figures given for Chernobyl by some sources seem closer.

Way more people died in aircraft crashes than 600 people. Is those data taken from where?

Cars are really something we need to phase out or limit usage of maximise on public-mass-transport+walk+mirco-mobility.

Is Betz limit still considered accurate? Cause the data looks to go with it.

Sure, that's totally understandable. However, in over a decade of editing Wikipedia, I've never ever ever heard someone refer to a WP admin as a "mod". Wikipedia does not have moderators. The purpose of an admin is not to moderate or review the content that is being written. In fact, when it comes to pure content decisions, the opinion of an admin is not given any more weight than anyone else's opinion.

If you've edited there for as long as you said, you'd probably know all of that already. So, not that it matters, but I kinda think you're not really a regular contributor.

Looks like the 1957 Mayak disaster.

I was wondering how you got the data, and that open-meteo thing is extremely interesting for getting historical data.

Last time i looked at this, which is about 5 years ago, the solution proposed to me by friends in climate science was to download datasets for testing climate models, and extract (very rough resolution) it from there. Or you could buy observational data from a meteo service for way too much money.

Bookmarked!

Interesting graph, but my brain can't really comprehend the exponential growth in the colors so maybe try another depiction.

Also it would be fun see smoking on there (knows it another kind of killer, but just for putting in perspective what kills us)

I would expect it to be a flood, since that's what killed most people, and it's literally in the name. but okay

Really not your fault, it's a confusing graphic. Because ALL TIME and ONE YEAR are highlighted, it really sets you up to think this is comparing all aviation deaths ever.