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submitted 1 year ago by DocInArk to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

They really just admitted they didn't know if it was going to work, but they couldn't easily test it, so they decided to send it anyway.

Here's a great video by real engineering about the likely carbon fiber failure mode.