🤔How can people just ignore material science, and call it "experimental?" Like using carbon fiber for a submarine (Ocean gate), or not having a heat and noise suppression system for a rocket launch pad (SpaceX)?

I see this as different than building a spaceship without a heat shield (Scaled Composites, Virgin Galactic). Because Scaled Composites had a (correct!) theory that didn't require ignoring the properties of the materials.

https://youtu.be/dU9TTRfM_9Q

Why rockets eject half a million gallons of water

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@mekkaokereke because once one gets to a certain level of wealth, the “rules” don’t apply to one, and the descent into forgetting those rules are societal, not physical happens, and one now thinks the laws of physics only apply to poor people.

The laws of physics, as it turns out, are some petty MFers.

@bynkii @mekkaokereke There’s a phenomenon, seen in pre-IPO companies, where staff, hoping for profit, turn blind eyes to egregious shit. (And companies sometimes take way too much advantage of that.)

This debacle has that written all over in Pokras Lampas-sized lettering. https://youtube.com/watch?v=JICQDQAjtT8&feature=share8

The largest calligraphy in Rome (Pokras Lampas ╳ F is for... FENDI)

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