Neal Stephenson on rockets
Feb. 6th, 2011 06:09 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
You folks like rockets, right?
The phenomena of path dependence and lock-in can be illustrated with many examples, but one of the most vivid is the gear we use to launch things into space. Rockets are a very old invention.