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Originally Posted by quasi

I'd believe it, typically the architects design with no regard for what anything costs. At some point they look to save money and it's cut cut cut cut cut and the final product often looks different then what was originally proposed. From my experience Architects either don't know or don't care what things cost so they have to be throttled back. No idea if they cut a feature that would stop the icey balls of death on this design but if they did that's kind of fucked up.

You anecdote simply proves you work with either garbage architects or students or on Government projects. Working within constraints is literally our only job. Budget is a pretty fucking big one.

Originally Posted by boibuddha

Or how about how the Americans who spent millions of dollars developing a pen that could write upside down in space? The Russians just used a pencil.

This meme makes me rage. First off it's completely untrue. Second, NASA hates fire because of the whole "fire makes everybody die in space thing" and is very hardcore when it comes to prohibiting flammable materials -- like the wood in pencils. Third, graphite as broken bits and in its powder form within a zero-gravity environment could cause damage to the very expensive, very precise scientific equipment used in space. Fourth, the Russians and everybody else, since it's inception, also use and have always used the Fischer space pen.