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Re:How SpaceX lands Starship (sort of) by geocrasher on Thursday May 13, 2021 @08:53PM (#27149369)
Indeed! After I posted I remembered the book "How to Invent Everything" which takes the case of a time traveler stuck in the past with a guide to invent civilization from scratch. It's a cool read:

https://www.howtoinventeverything.com/

Re:How SpaceX lands Starship (sort of) by f00zz on Friday May 14, 2021 @07:33AM (#27153098)
Looks interesting, thanks for the recommendation. Another one is "The Toaster Project", about how a guy made (well, sort of) a toaster from scratch:

http://www.thomasthwaites.com/the-toaster-project/