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What strikes me about a unit like that is how it's just a small part in an undertaking where thousands of similar components had to be ready and interoperable w
by lolc 5y ago
What strikes me about a unit like that is how it's just a small part in an undertaking where thousands of similar components had to be ready and interoperable within the decade.
- kens 5y agoYes, it's like fractal levels of complexity. This box is a small part of the system to test a small part of a subsystem that's a small part of the Moon landing, but even this one piece is complicated, and had pages and pages of specifications.
- jsrcout 5y agoI always think of building a system of this complexity as building a pyramid where each block is its own entire pyramid.
- kens 5y agoWhat you're describing is the fractal Sierpinski pyramid :-) Picture: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sierpinski_pyramid.png https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sierpinski_pyramid.p...