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      52 days ago

      What would you qualify? My mind goes to fusion, and the moon landings. And this is quite a bit more complicated than Apollo. (Though we have better tools nowadays)

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          52 days 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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            -22 days ago

            Sure, now do it with only paper and protractors.

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                Makes it easier, doesn’t it.

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

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