[ExI] rebuilding a saturn v today

Adrian Tymes atymes at gmail.com
Sat Mar 26 22:02:08 UTC 2011


On Sat, Mar 26, 2011 at 2:36 PM, Jeremy Webb <jedwebb at hotmail.com> wrote:
> Your example team of people doesn't know aeronautics, get someone that does.
> What's so hard to understand about cryo based rocketry anyway? It's just a
> bunch of math ...

Hopefully, you are joking.  Unfortunately, a lot of people seriously believe
exactly that.

Bending metal is not just a bunch of math.  Ask anyone who works in a
machine shop of any sort.  (Auto garage mechanics are a classic example.)
Math is part of the job, but far from all or even most of it



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