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by minimaxir 6 days ago
It's sorta hard to open-source building a rocket on GitHub.
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PaulHoule 6 days ago
I guess you could document all the technology in great detail but it is controlled for a reason.

Makes me think of how the Verein für Raumschiffahrt had just managed to get some land where they could fire rockets and then the Nazis told them "You've got to stop that, someone could get hurt!" then it dawned on the Nazis that they liked the sound of that.

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gus_massa 5 days ago
Software is nice because you can git clone && configure && make and test it mad fix the problems.

Cheap hardware like Arduino is more difficult.

For interplanetary rockets, probably only 2 or 3 guys can try the blueprints, and perhaps that's too optimistic.

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