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It makes it clear that "rocket science" is not actually about Newton's laws, but about incredibly evil chemistry.
by davidgerard 10y ago
It makes it clear that "rocket science" is not actually about Newton's laws, but about incredibly evil chemistry.
- marcosdumay 10y agoIt's also about creating machines with the minimum possible safety margin added. And huge machines, by the way. It's also about assembling huge teams, and yet keeping all their data in secret. It's also about extremely reliable electronics/software that must survive on the some of the last hospitable environments available, but must not ever get any maintenance. It's about a huge set of incredibly hard problems. Every one fascinating.