It's like Columbus figuring out how to get to the Americas, and then a few decades later, nobody kept any of the knowledge of ship building and navigation. It would be just like that, but a thousand times worse.
Except it's not like that at all. Space is infinitely more complex than oceanic travel and navigation, with a vast difference in the number of variables that can go wrong.
Ship building for oceanic navigation had many centuries of practice and refinement, whereas we (supposedly) only had one single manned mission to the moon and that was all.
It's disingenuous to call them anywhere in the realm of the same situation, and it's also wrong from a physics standpoint too.
The problem remains why didn't we ever innovate and iterate on it until SpaceX entered the scene and instead left the technology to "disappear".
Something doesn't add up somewhere in the equation, but it's not necessarily that it is a "forgotten" technology on its face. It clearly goes deeper than that.
I know, that's why I said it's a thousand times worse. The point of my comparison was that if some society had figured out how to get to some far away land, they would value that knowledge and technology, so there's definitely some fuckery afoot when they say we lost the tech to go to the moon.
It's like Columbus figuring out how to get to the Americas, and then a few decades later, nobody kept any of the knowledge of ship building and navigation. It would be just like that, but a thousand times worse.
Except it's not like that at all. Space is infinitely more complex than oceanic travel and navigation, with a vast difference in the number of variables that can go wrong.
Ship building for oceanic navigation had many centuries of practice and refinement, whereas we (supposedly) only had one single manned mission to the moon and that was all.
It's disingenuous to call them anywhere in the realm of the same situation, and it's also wrong from a physics standpoint too.
The problem remains why didn't we ever innovate and iterate on it until SpaceX entered the scene and instead left the technology to "disappear".
Something doesn't add up somewhere in the equation, but it's not necessarily that it is a "forgotten" technology on its face. It clearly goes deeper than that.
I know, that's why I said it's a thousand times worse. The point of my comparison was that if some society had figured out how to get to some far away land, they would value that knowledge and technology, so there's definitely some fuckery afoot when they say we lost the tech to go to the moon.