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People don’t like to admit it, but even rocket science isn’t rocket science. Think about it – you have a rocket, you know how much it weighs, you know how hard gravity pulls the rocket back to earth; you know how hard the engines push it, you know how much fuel they burn; you know how much lighter the rocket gets, you can work out how quickly the rocket becomes light enough and far enough from earth that gravity doesn’t pull it back down. Rocket science is three simultaneous equations. It’s not even A-Level maths. Which is not to say it isn’t difficult, but it’s not the pinnacle of difficulty that people would have you believe.
Today the average family of four carries with them more computing power than was used during the Apollo moon missions. All of them. Including at ground control.
Rocket science is more about hard work, determination and funding than it is about confronting complex theories. In that sense we are all capable of being ‘rocket scientists’.
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