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Bezos: A good six-page memo can take two weeks to write
“A good six-page memo might take two weeks to write. You have to write it. You have to rewrite it. You have to edit it. You have to talk to people about it. They have to poke holes in it for you. You write it again. It might take two weeks.”
Bezos: Parasitic mass is trivial for large rockets but critical for small rockets
“If you have, let's say you have an avionics system, so you have a guidance and control system, That is gonna be about the same mass and size for a giant rocket as it is gonna be for a tiny rocket. And so that's just parasitic mass that is very consequential if…”
Bezos: Rotating machines and turbopumps gain efficiency at larger sizes
“All rotating machines, in fact, get more efficient as they get larger. So really tiny turbo pumps are very challenging to manufacture and any kind of gaps, you know are like between the housing, for example, and the rotating impeller that pressurizes the fuel,…”