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The strong impression I always get from the entire Apollo program is "they didn't know it couldn't be done at the level of technology available, so they did it
by dmd 1y ago
The strong impression I always get from the entire Apollo program is "they didn't know it couldn't be done at the level of technology available, so they did it anyway".
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- SoftTalker 1y agoThat and they essentially had unlimited money.
- ahartmetz 1y agoAnd some guys who had previously succeeded at solving difficult problems under time pressure with limited money. Well, the money was more limited on one side of the war.
- joshvm 1y agoThere's a nice lecture from Dan Gelbart that discusses things that people thought were impossible, until they were invented: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZeBWJLRXqM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZeBWJLRXqM Creative solutions to impossible engineering problems