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#108 Thomas Zurbuchen: Adventures in Astrophysics

The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish

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Is It Important to Fire the Engine?

i wanted to get have over a hundred mission, so sometimes i mix up dates. Is there examples where you've made that call and it turned out to be wrong, but you got a good outcome? Yes. So by failing in my first decision, we enhance the mission significantly. We would have to fire the engine in a state that it had never been tested. Now, half a billion rasset, that's basically working, and i need to take a risk. Is it worth that risk? O actually the second decision had to reverse t at the first decision to fire because of the because of the enhanced and unknown risk.

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