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by wallace_f
2818 days ago
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Of course there are examples where complexity cannot be the issue. Russia had frankly no legitimate explanation or capacity to out-compete the US on launch systems, yet they did in many ways. Even the US-built Atlas V uses Russian RD-180 engines. Perhaps things like regulatory capture and bureaucratic intertia, among others, are to blame. There are other examples. I spent a lot of time around Boston, where road work takes ages, the roads are horrendously bad, and the most corrupt large-scale project in history took forever to finish (and then even a ceiling tile fell off and killed someone due to absurdly corrupt quality control). Of course, complex roads projects can be built extroardinarily quickly and safely[1]. 1 - https://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/05/25/california-free... |
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