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@happydawg2663 To be fair though that was the right thing to do... and he doesn't have to live with that guilt.
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SLS and Orion deserve heavy scrutiny as a valid launch platform precisely because they aren't testable and every configuration that launches will be different and as far as I am aware we still don't even do hardly any integration testing before launch. Probably they should fund a launcher on top of a falcon 9 be it Crew dragon which has a proven track record to the ISS or something else. I think one of the main benefits of Artemis is that it IS modular.
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@jaredf6205 HLS refueling is not actually a safety problem though... its an engineering problem, if you are scared of engineering problems to the point that it makes you dysfunctional you certainly aren't going to be even getting to the safety problems to solve them. The entire reason SpaceX has control of HLS now... is because nobody else was making any baby steps in the right direct EXCEPT SpaceX. Everyone else was trying to pull off big space post apollo cash grab projects. Will SpaceX be late... maybe, but there is zero chance that any of the other projects would have ever made it to the moon... look at the past 30 years littered with dozens of projects by all these space companies that never saw any real human rated flights. SpaceX is the only company doing real ground to LEO orbital fights today... everyone else is just being a venture capitalist instead of getting anything done.
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@dsdsspp7130 That may mean that the components themselves of the motor are irreducibly complex though... and it also means that you have a burden of parallel evolution for those as well as different uses for the same components... different uses meant those components would have had different selection criteria during evolution... but they ended up existing anyway in the same implementation in different applications. Also... cry me a river about anti evolution comments... evolutionist have been absolutely bashing anyone that does not agree with them, as a scientist that is unacceptable. Evolution these days is mainly believed because of peer pressure not because of valid scientific theory.
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