[tomcam]

When I see things like that I always think about their lifecycle. The frame will be stripped of the devices for another display. It'll still hang around in some honored spot, then they'll get new staff and it will be shunted into storage. In 3 years it will be disassembled and tossed into the dumpster because no one will have room for it at home.

[throwaway-432]

I work for a company which has made a huge satellite constellation and after a revision of a hardware component has run its course thousands have made their way to space, incomplete/failing units are shredded, and only a handful are kept. When the satellites eventually burn up in the atmosphere those ~3 builds are all that remain of the entire project, thousands of man-hours to engineer and build hardware that the world will never see. I think about those few survivors a lot.

[tomcam]

Oh the pain

[Fatnino]

We know you're talking about spacex

[ip26]

Props, acts and jigs are always like this. In reality, a small metal structure like this is not really so precious that it need be cherished or repurposed. Metal is very recyclable. It’s function was brief in time, but relatively high in impact.

[idontknowifican]

is there something inherently bad in this? do you feel something is lost?

[tomcam]

I do feel a twinge sometimes. I tend to get a bit too sentimental about artifacts.