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Time happened, and all civilization is perilously fragile. Don't be so surprised. For a while there we couldn't rebuild the Apollo rocket engines either.
by fit2rule 10y ago
Time happened, and all civilization is perilously fragile.
Don't be so surprised. For a while there we couldn't rebuild the Apollo rocket engines either.
- viewer5 10y ago> For a while there we couldn't rebuild the Apollo rocket engines either. What do you mean?
- fit2rule 10y agoQuite literally, NASA couldn't rebuild the Apollo engines after the program was shut down: we lost the plans and the technology to do that. It had to all be reverse-engineered. The point is: technology doesn't last any longer than the people who produced it.