<div dir="ltr">With space technology, it seems, most people assume a thing is impossible until it is done, no matter how theoretically easy it should be.<div><br></div><div>It seems that even a new type of nut and bolt won't be trusted to work in space until it has been demonstrated in space, even if there are literally zero applicable space-specific factors that might call into question the relevance of a ground demonstration. (A nut and bolt doesn't care about zero gravity, radiation, or vacuum.)</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Dec 31, 2020 at 2:32 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div class="gmail-m_-1270239626150678409WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">I share this Twitter user’s attitude about how cool this is, but disagree with his comment on impossible. It was generally agreed by about the late 1990s that it is possible to land a rocket feet first.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://twitter.com/i/status/1343959265988411394" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/i/status/1343959265988411394</a><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">spike<u></u><u></u></p></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>
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