[bluegatty]

No, space is just hard.

Everything is bespoke.

You need 10x cost to get every extra '9' in reliability and manned flight needs a lot of nines.

People died on the Apollo missions.

It just costs that much.

[arduanika]

Please, this is hacker news. Nothing else is hard outside of our generic software jobs, and we could totally solve any other industry in an afternoon.

[geerlingguy]

I mean I can just replace Dropbox with a shell script.

[bluegatty]

That's funny because you could! Dropbox started a shell script :)

Funny though I would assume HN people would respect how hard real-time stuff and 'hardened' stuff is.

[zenoprax]

I think GP is referencing this somewhat [in]famous post/comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863#9224

[Citizen_Lame]

HN audience has shifted, there is less technically minded people and more hustlers and farmers from other social media waste spaces. But alas.

[InsideOutSanta]

"No wireless. Less space than a Nomad. Lame."

No, wait, that was that other site.

[ramraj07]

Yep, spend 100 billion on what should have cost 1/50that cost, and send people up to the moon with rockets that we are still keeping our fingers crossed wont kill them tomorrow, and we have to congratulate them for dunking on some irrelevant career?