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I am in absolute awe of the results of research and engineering at NASA and many other space agencies for that matter. Nevertheless, I wonder: how much of the o
by alentred 3y ago
I am in absolute awe of the results of research and engineering at NASA and many other space agencies for that matter. Nevertheless, I wonder: how much of the overperformance is in fact about playing it down in the first place?
For example, what requirements for the Ingenuity helicopter were set for the engineers? Five flights or a 100 of flights?
- jdewerd 3y agoDefinitely a substantial portion of it, but we should be far more scandalized by the damage your typical runaway hype machine does to otherwise brilliant achievements than by NASA's successful efforts to wrangle expectations.