• Geodad@lemmy.world
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    14 hours ago

    Japanese cars are superior to American cars, why wouldn’t their rockets be?

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      5 hours ago

      Japanese cars are superior to American cars

      I had a high school friend who went on to become an engineer at General Motors. One of his first projects for them was tearing down an Infiniti and a Lexus when those cars first came on the market. He said that at the time, GM cars typically had between 300 and 400 production defects of varying severity. When they took apart the Infiniti, they found 2 production defects; when they took apart the Lexus, they found 0.

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      7 hours ago

      Definitely agreed on cars, but Japan’s last few moon missions had several catastrophic failures unfortunately.

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        22 seconds ago

        I’ll have to read up on that. I didn’t know they had tried anything because of the whole can’t make missiles thing.