| ▲ | petesergeant 10 hours ago | |
This feels like more a matter of scale than anything else? We’re able as a species to do some absolutely insane wizard shit elsewhere (chip fab?), we just haven’t launched enough rockets yet to get there. | ||
| ▲ | ceejayoz 6 hours ago | parent | next [-] | |
A significant part of stuff like chip fabs is a controlled environment. Which is tough with rockets. | ||
| ▲ | shamefulkiwi 10 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | |
Less than perfect chips are printed every day but the consequences of a less than optimal chip is ending up in a cheaper laptop vs. causing a big boom. I think we are doing wizard shit in rocketry, mistakes are just very loud. Definitely unexpected from BO, knowing that everyone is okay, I feel for their engineers right now. | ||
| ▲ | tsukikage 9 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | |
Flagship chip yields are generally less than 50%. Over half the chips coming out are dead on arrival, and never leave the fab. Imagine if rockets had that sort of failure rate. | ||
| ▲ | tonyhart7 10 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | |
the differences is rocket failure is blow up while chip design is salvageable | ||