Bohr once asked Pauli, “Is this really crazy enough?” That’s what I imagine the early discussions about SpaceX’s chopsticks mechanism must have been like. It’s an utterly preposterous idea and it worked. It’s one of the most amazing things I’ve ever seen in rocketry, and I’m old enough that I remember the first Sputnik.
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@SteveBellovin My (inaccurate) thought on watching this is "we know this is real because it's too ludicrous to do in a movie"