so many accounts written about the steam engine but not about the development of pipes and boilers which it depended on.
feel like the same is holding true for rocket engines and valving/plumbing
the coolest people i know tend to get more excited by not knowing something;
whereas the majority either get scared, pretend to know the thing, or somehow try to make an argument that knowing the thing isn't important.
tangentially related:
youtube.com/watch?v=E1RqTP…
it says a lot about our species that we labeled “poison ivy” by the single worst thing it can do to us.
wonder what whales or other animals would label us.
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