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178 successful launches in 2022. 7 failures, 1 partial failure. 95% success rate for the industry.

The failures can often be spectacular given the energy involved, but in terms of actual numbers we've gotten pretty good at putting stuff in orbit.

I dunno, 95% uptime is pretty bad in the software world. A program that corrupts your data 1 out of 20 times you use it would be garbage.

That 95% figure for spaceflight includes their test and staging environments.

Allow me to introduce Python

Robust, reliable applications can be written in python.

That doesn't mean it happens.

Humans playing with fire is exacly how we evolved from a primitive society to who we are nowadays.

Well.... we're still a primitive society so.... not sure what you are trying to say.

Humans, perhaps not. At best you can stop your friends from doing this. But you can't stop your enemies.

No.

Just because you don't understand the safety mechanisms doesn't mean they aren't there.