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Re:SpaceX installed 29 Raptor engines on a Super Heavy rocke... by freeopinion on Monday August 02, 2021 @05:16PM (#28042772)
Better efficiencies with significantly more launches per year and eventually interplanetary travel would be bad for the agencies that regulate it? How do you figure?

The FAA has no inherent incentive to slow things down. It seems to me that they do have incentive to encourage growth. Without this base for your arguments, they all seem unstable to me.

When there are mountains of red tape it is easy to over-simplify the reasons. But that usually isn't helpful in correcting the problem.

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Re:SpaceX installed 29 Raptor engines on a Super Heavy rocke... by BitwiseFool on Monday August 02, 2021 @05:33PM (#28042974)
Over the long run, more volume would provide more work for the FAA and its employees. For now, though, loosening the rules in hopes of getting more launches would serve to reduce work for the agency and diminish it's purpose. I could see a business making the short term tradeoff in the name of long term gains but not a government bureaucracy. Does that make where I am coming from a little more understandable?
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