• @[email protected]OP
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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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            -22 days ago

            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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                -12 days 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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                  22 days ago

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

                  What do you mean? Starship does too.

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                    12 days 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.