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Revolution means pretty literally "turn something around". Which a first actual large-scale deployment of something fulfills, but isolated experiments don't.
by inglor_cz 2y ago
Revolution means pretty literally "turn something around".
Which a first actual large-scale deployment of something fulfills, but isolated experiments don't.
Was Falcon 9 revolutionary? For me, absolutely, because it was the first widely deployed rocket that made partial reuse economical, and thus enabled projects such as Starlink.
We can call the previous small-scale experiments bold or maybe groundbreaking, but there was no revolution achieved.
- keybored 2y agoEDIT: Ahead might be simply nitpicking & splitting hairs. You’re moving the goalpost. First it was a revolutionary idea. Now a revolution is after an idea has been put into practice.[1] Which is it? [1] Even “not everything was thought of yet” but it’s there “for people whose thinking is sufficiently out of the box”. Come on.
- inglor_cz 2y agoYou are onto something. I moved the goalpost. One of the reasons might be that the conversation dragged over hours and I lost the precise context in my head, with tons of distractions coming my way.