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In such big projects as this, you just can't say "we didn't though about that, we will wait to see if we have luck". Having B-plans for each specific case that
by pvaldes 3y ago
In such big projects as this, you just can't say "we didn't though about that, we will wait to see if we have luck".
Having B-plans for each specific case that you could reasonable obtain is a must. They were paid big sweet money for thinking about that.
The idea that the machine can be moved only if receives sun by some specific direction, is not logical when you play at this level.
- dotnet00 3y agoThis isn't a $20B project paid for by a corrupt government and poorly educated population like what NASA deals with, where indeed they cannot go without a measure for every contingency and without promising to burn billions of dollars buying votes, because otherwise they won't get funding at all. This had a total cost of $121M. Like any sane engineering project, it did accept some risk and chance of failure as part of the tradeoffs. Part of that was potentially landing in a bad orientation.
- pvaldes 3y ago> not a project paid for by a corrupt government and poorly educated population like what NASA deals with, Was that part really necessary? If nose landing is ok for the Japanese, is ok for me.