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No wonder large scale projects in the west have atrophied with takes like this getting traction.
by FL33TW00D 4y ago
No wonder large scale projects in the west have atrophied with takes like this getting traction.
- flangola7 4y agoWhat do you mean?
- Vecr 4y agoI think they mean turning humanity into some sort of collective suicide cult over birds is really stupid. Humanity first.
- kevviiinn 4y agoThe OP is simply telling us that they're unaware of the details and they are showing their bias against reasonable regulation alongside a disdain for any environmental impact of any project
- rsynnott 4y ago> in the west For reference, the flame trench shown in the article is in Kazakhstan; it was used for the first manned space launch over 60 years ago. "Be a bit careful with rockets" is not an exclusively western thing, nor is it new.
- friend_and_foe 4y agoMaybe the approach is also a bit outdated? Spacex is not just building a rocket, theyre building a fully reusable, low cost, high volume space launch system. That might involve innovating and cutting fat off the design of the entire set of facilities, not just the rocket. If we were just doing things the way they've always been done on faith that the people that did it did it right the first time we wouldn't have falcon 9, much less starship.
- freejazz 4y agoWeird how you project that others are doing things under the basis of faith, but "move fast and break things" somehow isn't. Totally defies common sense and all principles of reasonableness.
- icegreentea2 4y agoI get what you're saying - and actually I do agree to an extent. But I don't think the 'problem' is these takes themselves. The problem is that generally our tolerance for negative outcomes has dwindled. Instead of being upfront and saying "we expect these launches to kill 500-1000 extra birds over the next 3 years, and we think that's an acceptable price", we play silly games with fudging models and numbers and language to say "we expect the impact on wildlife to be negligible". We've lost the ability to properly lead and discuss and decide on trade-offs, and instead fall back on an illusion that we can almost make decisions that are 99% upside, 1% downside. We then torture our processes to sustain this illusion.