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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I’m seeing some overly complicated answers… Very simply, it’s really hard to scale up or down forces. I hate Elon more than the next person but it’s better that it blow up and it be empty than blow up and be full of people because the scaled down model didn’t account for atmospheric pressure