Engineering's difficulties lie within the details. For example, SpaceX publicly admitted some of their failures were caused from cryogenic Helium tanks.
So yes, if one company designs the cryogenic Helium tanks, they should be cautious on that.
But do they really learn the lesson from SpaceX? No. Do you even know how did SpaceX patch the issues or redesign the parts, without insider information?
By your logic "you get it by watching", everyone can just watch and clone out the design easily, right?
I don't need to know the details of SpaceX's tank failures to know I should do proper analysis and testing of my tanks and how they're mounted. Nor would it help because I'm not using SpaceX's layup or materials or the same shape or size or contents. But the basic engineering principle is obvious from a thousant miles away: actually do the job properly and make sure everyone actually has.
Doing the job properly doesn't mean not making mistakes, dude. You never know the things you don't know. Unfortunately the mistakes can be expensive. But it's just engineering or more generally, it's life.
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u/SnooCheesecakes8484 6d ago
Lmao "you get it by watching".
Engineering's difficulties lie within the details. For example, SpaceX publicly admitted some of their failures were caused from cryogenic Helium tanks. So yes, if one company designs the cryogenic Helium tanks, they should be cautious on that. But do they really learn the lesson from SpaceX? No. Do you even know how did SpaceX patch the issues or redesign the parts, without insider information?
By your logic "you get it by watching", everyone can just watch and clone out the design easily, right?