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Scalene2 on Oct 28, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: Large Balloon Reflector: a potentially game-changi...

The rocket crane to land a rover was pretty crazy, gonna be hard to top that.

ooterness on Oct 28, 2023 [–]

That still blows my mind. At some point, a room full of risk-averse engineers all agreed that "rocket crane" is the safest and most practical solution to a problem.

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