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Safest, I'd think the Navy can't be bad.
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No, the US aircraft carrier is the most dangerous 4acres of land on the planet. Enormous steam generators, 2 nuclear reactors, millions of gallons of highly refined aviation fuel, tons and tons of highly explosive ordinance, nuclear missles/bombs (yeah they still carry them just in case), flight deck tossing/catching aircraft at +200mph, jet engines that suck people right in (and sometimes out), and prop planes that will do the same.... I could go on.
So yeah, it's not exactly safe... watch the video of the USS Forestal... there's a reason it's known to sailors as the USS Forestfire since then. A missle loaded onto an A-4 attack plane fires off on its own, hits another A-4 fully loaded with fuel/bombs... starts a chain reaction with all of the other attack planes and almost sinks the entire ship.