• JohnDClay@sh.itjust.worksOP
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    1 month 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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        1 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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                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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                  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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                    It’s just that Apollo dealt directly with rockets and boosters and so on.

                    What do you mean? Starship does too.