• @JohnDClay@sh.itjust.worksOP
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      71 month ago

      Starship is aiming to have the same payload capacity while being fully reusable. Seems like adding that constraint makes it harder.

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        31 month ago

        Sure, now do it with only paper and protractors.

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              1 month ago

              Would you call the pyramids the most difficult engineering problems in human history? They had a whole lot worse tools. I wasn’t taking into account how much easier the tools make it, just the complexity of the challenge.

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                11 month ago

                I mean. They were pretty challenging, I would expect.

                It’s just that Apollo dealt directly with rockets and boosters and so on.

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                    21 month ago

                    It was about “Those are literally the engineers who worked on this, one of the most difficult engineering problems in human history, having nailed it on their first try.”

                    And how the tools, materials, processes, and organizational structures to deal with those complexities do in fact make it easier than say the original Apollo missions.