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Everything done in space is extremely slow.
by Gravityloss 12y ago
Everything done in space is extremely slow.
- ColinWright 12y agoNot always. The problem is that if you get something wrong, the chances of dying are extremely high. I work in marine radar, and I see this a lot as people manoeuvre tankers and other vessels weighing 100s of thousands of tonnes. They take things extremely slowly, knowing that time saved by doing things more quickly is as nothing compared with potential losses of getting something wrong. At least in dock there will be people and services that can spring into action and help. In space, that won't happen.
- Gravityloss 12y agoIt's also the problem that for example dockings happen only approximately every few months or so. Hence it's not worth the effort to make it a fast process - the investment of time and resources would never pay itself back. Interesting that you used a ship analogy. I've heard of claims like "you can't LNG bunker a ship in an hour". But if you operate a fast turnaround ferry on a point to point route, your time table simply gives you no choice. You pay the money and spend the effort to develop a working process, and then you have a fast process. Pioneering is expensive indeed. And space is a very unforgiving environment.
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- dm2 12y agoBoth objects are traveling at 17,000 MPH and any mistake could kill lots of people and destroy a hundred billion dollar structure and would set humanity back decades in space. "Slow" in space is relative and extremely necessary.