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I don't necessarily think the knowledge is lost, but the second system effect sure is in full swing.

• JumpCrisscross 11mo ago
  It isn’t lost. But it’s decaying. I remember picking through an aerospace scrapyard in North Hollywood a decade ago with extremely-talented launch engineers (and entrepreneurs). The aim was to look at parts, measure them and figure out why they were built like they were. We looked, a little, at stuff like nozzles. But mostly we focussed on bolts, joiners, turbine blades and the like.
  • Koala_ice 11mo ago
    That sounds like living amongst the ruins of the Roman Empire
    • JumpCrisscross 11mo ago
      > sounds like living amongst the ruins of the Roman Empire Down to the fact that the Eastern Roman Empire was going strong. Even in 2014, when I was in North Hollywood, SpaceX was carrying the torch.