Why do we still expect “successful failures” on rocket launches and not just scale up or scale down the same design on successful rocket ships and launch pads to make bigger or smaller ships with more stable structural material?

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Why do we still expect “successful failures” on rocket launches and not just scale up or scale down the same design on successful rocket ships and launch pads to make bigger or smaller ships with more stable structural material?

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Physics doesn’t scale well in this way.

If a fly were the size of a golfball and you simply scaled it up from it’s normal size, it wouldn’t be able to fly. It probably coudn’t even support it self on it’s own legs.