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Bootstrapping is always interesting. Thanks!
by agazso 17y ago
Bootstrapping is always interesting. Thanks!
- fnid 17y agoIt's not really bootstrapping considering another crane is used to build the base of it and initial structure. I was actually hoping it was more of a bootstrapped effort.
- mechanical_fish 17y agoIt's not really bootstrapping considering another crane is used to build the base of it... Well, there's no reason it has to be that way, except money and time. One could, in theory, assemble the base and initial structure by carrying individual steel rods and buckets of concrete to the site and assembling them all. But the astute (and, perhaps, perverse) observer would note that this only pushes the problem farther down the stack. Using humans to carry your parts to assemble the base isn't really bootstrapping, either, because where did the steel and concrete come from? For that matter, where did the humans come from? Unfortunately, we don't yet know how to depict humans being bootstrapped from raw organic chemicals at this level of detail, and even if we did it would probably run a bit longer than 6:17.