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25 days agoAh, yes, the SpaceX method of rapid development and iterative design by… testing in production and making debris rain over the Caribbean, disrupting air traffic in the region.
I’m done with fanboys calling this method genius. “Oh, it would make the production lines idle for months”. Bullshit. Just make it right. Compare it to the Saturn V, it only needed one test flight to orbit and never had a major failure, and the Saturn V had components welded and drilled by hand, with 60’s tech. Oh, and it launched once every two or three months in 1969, just like Starship today.
To make it more sci-fi: We have only found such thing in one planet in the whole galaxy, maybe universe.