whenchamenia 5 years ago

People are often bamboozled when I explain various 1950's style tech still used extensively by nasa and their contractors. With the odds alredy involved in space flight, you play astonishinly conservative with anything that doesn't have a large weight cost, and occasionally even when it does. But reliability, and often more important, Servicability, is worth more than a few dollars and couple grams.

As someone who enjoys working on cars and bikes as a hobby, you can really tell when the engineers foresaw actual use and wear, and the repairs that would nessesitate. Thank you, deeply, to everyone who thought about the second and third owners when designing your product. Destroying the 'disposable' mindset in product engeneering can't happen soon enough.

We only have had the technology to interchange standard parts like screws for 200 years, and already we seem determined to abandon the advances in standardization. I can't even figure out what SD card to buy after yesterdays article and long discussion. Standards shape the future, be involved in yours.