I remember the original en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teledesic proposal in the 90s sounding extremely ambitious with 840 satellites.
I remember the original en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teledesic proposal in the 90s sounding extremely ambitious with 840 satellites.
@ID_AA_Carmack I’ve never been certain whether the moral of the Icarus story should only be, as is generally accepted, ‘don’t try to fly too high,’ or whether it might also be thought of as ‘forget the wax and feathers, and do a better job on the wings. -Stanley Kubrick
@sunnychu_ @ID_AA_Carmack All due respect to Kubrick, but he missed the point of the story. The wings worked, but Icarus ignored the advice of the engineers and flew out of spec. See: Challenger Disaster.