I am trying to understand what's the big deal about this, other that massive weight and the money involved. The way I see it is software controls the fuel output and motion control. The only other challenge I have been hearing about is the heat shield. Other that this what's really special about the spaceship. The number of modules and the complexity seems not that huge. Any error or miscalculation in here is very costly and that is the only thing seems to be the bottleneck here.

If its that trivial, why did nobody came up with this on their own so far?

I think its money, regulations and viable business plan, because govt is the only market and its risky.

From the engineering perspective what's the real challenge here? Because senors are so capable and control software are mature already.

The real question is if others maybe thought it's not worthwhile because the R&D cost isn't justified. Like "a solution without a problem".

I know for sure that EU public development of similar technology is gated between approvals and bureaucracy, in addition to environmental limitations that SpaceX can ignore.

This. Nailed it. This right here is the core issue. Thanks for writing.

the day firefox execs took private jets to meeting, I knew it can never be fixed. surprised still the downfall is not reached bottom

When was this? Where can I read more about it?

the sustainable population is 3 billion for earth. we are already way too much.

but why? why punish singles?

One argument will be that society invested lot of resources in bringing up the "singles" but now it is their time to take up the responsibility. Extra tax seems like a easy way out.

This is the best use of claude, think no diabetes, regenerative limbs, immortality.

It's a bad idea as long as there is a corp behind it. "AI for good" is not possible as long as anyone related to it has financial incentives.

whats the alternative to servos that give precise movement and control via software.

Any of the integrated actuators on the market (e.g. Cubemars, zeroerr, myactuator, many more) do proper control and feedback.