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I’m always deeply skeptical of appeals to the “laws of physics”. Yes, there are some hard constraints there, no, it doesn’t account for bright ideas for how to
by petesergeant 2y ago
I’m always deeply skeptical of appeals to the “laws of physics”. Yes, there are some hard constraints there, no, it doesn’t account for bright ideas for how to make those less important; the laws of physics stop us shrinking vacuum tubes small enough to fit billions on a chip, but it turns out that that doesn’t actually matter
- baq 2y agoThere’s no working around the rocket equation unless you invent antigravity, which I personally think is a harder problem than transistors.
- petesergeant 2y ago> There’s no working around the rocket equation Or "Space Travel is Utter Bilge"[0], as they say 0: https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2003AAS...203.2801Y/abstract https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2003AAS...203.2801Y/abstra...