• SpacePirate@lemmy.ml
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    lol, how is the audio annoying? 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.

    If you want pure rocket audio, look into cosmic perspective after a few weeks.

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        The first time they tried to catch with the chopsticks, it workes without blowing up the whole launchpad.

        When they did this with the Falcon 9, it took several flights to get a landing without significant damage to the drone ship, the booster, or both.

        Pretty impressive that they got it to work right out of the gate with the Super Heavy Booster

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          It also proves the importance of progressive integration tests even if they’re destructive. The amount you can learn by actually putting everything together is just fundamentally necessary to make sure these complex systems work.

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          Well, this time around, even though a different mechanism was used, they had all the Falcon experience to draw from, which shortens development.

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        You know when you try, and try and try and try and fail every time…

        But then you scratch your left tit and try again and you finally make it?

        You made it first try after scratching your tit!

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        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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            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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                    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.