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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Sol System: [QB] Timo, your point about varying degrees of technical difficulty is indeed worth noting, and I'd say a lengthy and ongoing design process is nearly canon, from what little we've seen on the subject (the whole Leah Brahms thing, for instance), but what is tripping me up is that, from my point of view, building starships is obviously not intended, within this particular fiction, to be a feat of exceptional difficulty. I mean, I guess the gap in our readings just goes to show how little time the subject has been given on TV. But, I do think your shuttle example is fundamentally misleading. The space shuttle's problems are well known and the source of much discussion elsewhere, but I think we can agree that there is a major difference between building the first partly reusable spacecraft (whose design specs were famously yanked around between civilian and military requirements) and constructing spacecraft (or anything, really) within a mature industry. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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