I read a social media post illustrating the difference between German and Japanese engineering, it was to illustrate cars but was overall generally applicable. The guy was a chemical filter engineer, and at the company he and his peers were sitting around BSing and a manager came in with a jar of blue goo saying that a customer complained that their filter had failed. It was supposed to filter whatever chemical. The engineer asked what concentration of whatever was being run through the filter, and the manager said 5.5%. And they laughed and said that filter was designed for 4% so clearly the customer was an idiot and they wouldn't put up with that sort of nonsense. On your bike and get out of here, and the manager left, suitably chastised. The analogy applied to cars was that German cars are designed to specific performance parameters, and they do great within those parameters if maintained well. Whereas Japanese cars are designed for parameters broader than what they advertise, and possibly more beyond that. And THAT is what SLIM is demonstrating! It probably won't go much beyond another lunar day/night cycle, but their next one is going to have some pretty freakin' cool longevity, I'll bet!
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I read a social media post illustrating the difference between German and Japanese engineering, it was to illustrate cars but was overall generally applicable. The guy was a chemical filter engineer, and at the company he and his peers were sitting around BSing and a manager came in with a jar of blue goo saying that a customer complained that their filter had failed. It was supposed to filter whatever chemical. The engineer asked what concentration of whatever was being run through the filter, and the manager said 5.5%. And they laughed and said that filter was designed for 4% so clearly the customer was an idiot and they wouldn't put up with that sort of nonsense. On your bike and get out of here, and the manager left, suitably chastised. The analogy applied to cars was that German cars are designed to specific performance parameters, and they do great within those parameters if maintained well. Whereas Japanese cars are designed for parameters broader than what they advertise, and possibly more beyond that. And THAT is what SLIM is demonstrating! It probably won't go much beyond another lunar day/night cycle, but their next one is going to have some pretty freakin' cool longevity, I'll bet!