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Eh, NASA has been losing interplanetary landers for as long as its been launching them. The original Surveyor program, the pre-Apollo effort to land robotic pr
by simplicio 3y ago
Eh, NASA has been losing interplanetary landers for as long as its been launching them. The original Surveyor program, the pre-Apollo effort to land robotic probes on the moon, lost 2 out of 7.
I don't think there's any evidence here for decreasing ability to engineer space probes.
- NoZebra120vClip 3y agoWe can't figure out how the Egyptians (or Aztecs or Maya) built their pyramids. Stonehenge is an engineering mystery. The heads on Easter Island are likewise a riddle to moderns. Indeed, it's well-documented that we have no idea how to reproduce a Saturn V booster at this point -- too much documentation, expertise, and manpower have been lost in the intervening years. I'd reckon that there's more knowledge and skills that are lost, intergenerationally, than we gain through R&D.
- rsstack 3y agoWe can't figure out how the Egyptians built the pyramids (although there are theories), but we definitely know how to build pyramids. It's fairly easy if anyone wants to pay for one.
- timschmidt 3y agoWe can't what now? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43V9RTpnxbk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43V9RTpnxbk