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		millerm on April 24, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Space Elevator The grand applause when they blew it up showed that it was a success.

dormento on April 27, 2023 [–]

Well to be faaaaaair, they were properly "primed" to applaud and call it a success, no matter what happened. But yeah, infinite money does that to you: you can operate in "fail fast" mode and obtain results you could not otherwise.

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