• Zanathos@lemmy.world
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      3 days ago

      I’m sure they did, and they wouldn’t take the farm down until there was X% failure, but the amount of time and effort it took to perform those repairs made it unfeasible.

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        you don’t need to jump off a building to research gravity…

        the specific issue that is claimed to have made the entire project unviable is easily spotted a mile away

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          How are you going to evaluate long term effects without practical experiments? They clearly have the money and its much easier and efficient to launch a real MVP than to design a complex set of simulations and tests.