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A comment on Elon Musk’s plan to build one Starship a week and settle Mars. Parent comment

Re:Elon Musk’s plan to build one Starship a week and settle ... by varjag on Thursday March 05, 2020 @04:56PM (#22498781)
It's perfectly normal engineering practice. Camshaft, gearbox profiles, and bearing surfaces in your car have very tight tolerances. A one slightly unbalanced turbine blade in your airliner engine would assure catastrophic failure. etc etc
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Re:Elon Musk’s plan to build one Starship a week and settle ... by aguyfromnb on Friday March 06, 2020 @06:51AM (#22502872)
Do you not see a difference between the intricate components of an engine and the welds on a tank as far as complexity?

Is it even possible to discuss anything Elon Musk anymore without 100% praise of his engineering prowess? Every single comment gets down-voted into oblivion, with very few replies. And, due to the "cool off", this prevents any balanced discourse.

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Re:Elon Musk’s plan to build one Starship a week and settle ... by Bendingo on Thursday March 05, 2020 @08:11PM (#22500200)
Yes, but these items (camshaft, gearbox etc) are not made "by hand".
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Re:Elon Musk’s plan to build one Starship a week and settle ... by varjag on Friday March 06, 2020 @04:01AM (#22502058)
Camshafts were turned then ground manually on line lathes and surface grinders for many decades before advent of CNC, with about the same degree of dimensional precision as today.

It is more an issue of quality control and inspection routines.

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