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Two machines designed to do the same job in the same environment look similar? Nah, that doesn’t track.
KSP rocket
It looks whole lot like a rocket. It’s almost like there is a shape that works well for the job.
I’m getting Ariane 5 tbh.
I dont see it
That’s because the stock image Wired used is of a Long March 5, not Long March 9.
It does not look anything like 
.I believe that render is outdated. The Long March 9 has undergone a quite a few redesigns over the years.
The original ARS Technica article this Wired article was based on includes a more recent mockup of Long March 9:
That’s just the top, isn’t it?
Yes but the stages before that are all kinda the same looking as they’re obviously just tubes holding rocket fuel. Virtually all rockets look the same if we go by that metric.
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