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Some problems don't just "seem" hard, they are hard, and there simply is no quick solution, and no amount of wishing for it and pretending there is, nor even in
by brazzy 3y ago
Some problems don't just "seem" hard, they are hard, and there simply is no quick solution, and no amount of wishing for it and pretending there is, nor even ingenuity and venture capital, can make a feasible solution manifest.
- concordDance 3y agoWe won't know until we try. Cheap reusable rockets seemed hard until SpaceX came along and made them routine.
- ilyt 3y agoExcept there was plenty of trying and a whole lot of nothing.
- barrysteve 3y agoSpaceX had a huge and long runway, took over from ex-NASA guys who worked on the Shuttle. Thrust vectoring and other key technologies already had been developed in similar companies. John Carmack's Armadillo Aerospace worked in the space. Carbon capture is not exactly picking up where the Shuttle left off. The most interesting part of carbon capture is the offshoot technologies.