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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making things bigger changes everything. Look at a simple bridge. For example a piece of wood over some water. You can’t scale that indefinitely. Eventually the plank will break. Same for rockets. You cant make the design bigger and expect everything to be the same and work