• Niberius@sopuli.xyz
    48·
    8 months ago

    Read ages ago that at MIT or wherever they taught rocket science they would say “it’s just rocket science, it’s not music theory.” No clue if that’s actually true tho

    • Donkter@lemmy.world
      19·
      8 months ago

      I always thought things like music theory and biology were harder because it’s often words and classifications given to things before they were codified and then when you learn the actual theory it’s like “well, this thing is named identically to that other piece of theory over there because we used to think they were the exact same but actually they couldn’t be more different”. Chemistry can be similar but has a much more rigid structure than music theory and biology.

      Physics at least tends to start with math and connects to theory later.

      • Signtist@bookwyr.meEnglish
        13·
        8 months ago

        Genetics is especially bad, since newly-discovered genes are named based on their function, while genes that were discovered in the early days of genetics research were instead named based on what happens to the body when they don’t work, since we didn’t know enough about biology back then to determine what their exact function was. This leads to situations like how one of the prominent genes featured in eye development is called “Retina and Anterior Neural Fold Homeobox,” and another is called “Eyeless.”

    • TheJesusaurus@piefed.caEnglish
      9·
      8 months ago

      The one I always heard as a failed physicist cum engineer was “rocket science is 80% plumbing”

    • marcos@lemmy.world
      32·
      8 months ago

      It’s very likely that most people that study rocket engineering can’t learn music theory at all. Just like the other way around.

      • AnarchoEngineer@lemmy.dbzer0.com
        14·
        8 months ago

        Actually the opposite is true in my experience. Many engineers, physicists, and especially mathematicians are interested in music theory and/or play instruments themselves.

        A classmate of mine, who is like the “Kyle” stereotype of monster energy drinking gamer, is also an engineering student who happens to be a virtuoso on the cello.

        I think four members of my research lab play piano, two can play the violin iirc, and our advisor plays guitar.

          • nightlily@leminal.spaceEnglish
            4·
            8 months ago

            It’s also a very arbitrary, Eurocentric, and not grounded in actual biological or physical fact. It’s not „sounds that sound good universally across humanity“, despite how its adherents present it.

      • naeap@sopuli.xyz
        1·
        8 months ago

        So, you have never read Hesse it seems
        Pretty much the essence of at least quite some books of him is, that music and math are basically the same thing

  • 🍉 DrRedOctopus 🐙🍉@lemmy.world
    7·
    8 months ago

    there was a launch, when they found a crack on the engine cone, and decided to trimm the last cm of the cone to fix it.

    Officially the hardest thing ever done, literally rocket surgery

  • Diplomjodler@lemmy.world
    4·
    8 months ago

    I’d say brain surgery and rocket science are harder than quantum physics because people won’t die if you get the quantum physics wrong.

    • OwOarchist@pawb.socialBanned from communityEnglish
      3·
      8 months ago

      because people won’t die if you get the quantum physics wrong.

      Well, not with that attitude!

      (Okay, I guess, in pure quantum physics, nobody is going to get hurt by it. But if you venture into applied quantum physics – quantum engineering – then you begin to reintroduce the possibility that getting it wrong could cause serious harm in some cases.)

      • MinnesotaGoddam@lemmy.world
        2·
        8 months ago

        i’m sorry but the whole “pure” and “applied” division between physics cracks me up because drugs. I would like to buy some physics please but *dips finger* is it pure? y’all really need a better word

  • Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works
    2·
    8 months ago

    But can they CORRECTLY:

    Install a skylight?

    Prune a tree?

    Harvest strawberries?

    “The laborer is worthy of his hire,” when their expertise serves the endeavor at hand, whatever that is.

    (Does not include anyone who buys companies to fire the employees and sell off the assets, or corrupts whole industries with AI and data stealing. Anyone who’s bankrupted a casino and/or welched on due payments need not apply.)