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[–] Hugin@lemmy.world 26 points 2 days ago

It looks whole lot like a rocket. It's almost like there is a shape that works well for the job.

[–] spittingimage@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

Two machines designed to do the same job in the same environment look similar? Nah, that doesn't track.

[–] vzq@lemmy.world 16 points 2 days ago

I’m getting Ariane 5 tbh.

[–] orl0pl@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago
[–] Dequei@sopuli.xyz 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

That's because the stock image Wired used is of a Long March 5, not Long March 9.

[–] DarkThoughts@fedia.io 6 points 1 day ago (2 children)

From what I can find the March 9 is just about twice as long, proportionally, looking nearly the same otherwise. It does not look anything like this thing.

[–] threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I believe that render is outdated. The Long March 9 has undergone a quite a few redesigns over the years.

The original ARS Technica article this Wired article was based on includes a more recent mockup of Long March 9:

[–] Name@feddit.nu 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That's just the top, isn't it?

[–] DarkThoughts@fedia.io 3 points 1 day ago

Yes but the stages before that are all kinda the same looking as they're obviously just tubes holding rocket fuel. Virtually all rockets look the same if we go by that metric.

[–] Fermion@feddit.nl 3 points 1 day ago
[–] Landsharkgun@midwest.social -1 points 2 days ago