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Icerios t1_j2nvqsr wrote

Reply to comment by CTDKZOO in Pulling together different technologies to make interstellar colonization possible by matthewgdick

> Oh when this person hits the workplace and finds out that average is excellence...

Spot on, hahaha.

Unfortunately, though, plot demands conflict, so of course something must go awry. Otherwise your tale is just a bland documentary following a fictitious series of events.

In terms of realism, whenever humans have any involvement in anything, there will be some mistakes that’ll look utterly ridiculous in hindsight. Just look at the glitch the ~$10B James Webb telescope suffered. If it happened in fiction, it’d be criticized for being a cheap plot device. Hard realism is an “unrealistic” mix of diabolus ex machina, diabolus ex nihilo, and deus ex machina.

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zoinkability t1_j3nvt5v wrote

What was the glitch in the JWST? Having only paid attention to it for a bit over a year everything seems to have gone smoothly. Are you referring to a glitch that delayed the project completion? I know it was tremendously over budget and schedule.

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