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From Elon Musk "failure is an option". My take, if you aren't failing then you aren't learning.
by larrydag 6y ago
From Elon Musk "failure is an option". My take, if you aren't failing then you aren't learning.
- ErikVandeWater 6y agoDepends what kind of payload you have on your rocket. People or a billion-plus dollars of equipment? Or is it just a test rocket to see if it can land itself?
- JumpCrisscross 6y ago> People or a billion-plus dollars of equipment? Requiring no risk of failure for people is a large part of why we don’t launch astronauts much. Space is risky. Setting the expectation that astronauts can never be lost, as opposed to that they are on an exciting frontier that has its dangers, is out of line with astronauts’ own risk preferences. This has been a failure of expectations setting by NASA.
- scrollaway 6y agoI'm sure it's not just for the sake of the astronauts though. Losing an astronaut is losing a massive investment and years of training.
- JumpCrisscross 6y ago> Losing an astronaut is losing a massive investment and years of training Practically grounding astronauts for three decades is not much better.
- ErikVandeWater 6y agoI'm just saying it would be blasé to say that "risk is always an option" in regards to astronaut lives or billions of dollars of equipment.
- JumpCrisscross 6y agoExpanding: it should be known when failure is tolerated. Situations where it isn’t (e.g. maiden flight with astronauts) should follow ones where it is. Being the one learning through failure in an organisation not tolerating it isn’t fun.
- coldtea 6y agoWhen the final outcome is important/worth it, failure is tolerated everywhere. Including "maiden flight with astronauts". Several test pilots, and astronauts died and we still went to air/space.
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- roughly 6y agoFailure is an option right up until you’re doing 85 on a crowded highway with passengers in the car.
- haimez 6y agoWith business requirements that you never reduce speed.