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by carabiner 1164 days ago
The guy also tried to build a rocket to reach space via "first principles." It failed, utterly.
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It did the thrust vectoring thing. The rocket was ahead of the competition for a moment.

He said games were one of the most complex things humans build and (with implied comparison) the mathematics and physics of rocketry hadn't changed much since the 1960s. Sounds true to me for the 2000s.

Where was the utter failure and first principles?

They had a low budget relative to most of the others and reached break-even profitability but he moved on to other stuff. Where is the trying to reach space by "first principles" quote from?