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by echoangle 720 days ago
Specific impulse would also be nice, thrust itself isn’t very impressive
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I think the impressive thing here is more that they asked the computer to design an engine which produced a desired amount of thrust, and it did so.

The thing being demonstrated isn’t ‘we made this engine, look how impressive its specs are’, it’s ’our computer can make working engines to spec’