we stuffed 45 people in a waffle house and the 4 cooks on the graveyard shift served everyone within 30 minutes. waffle house employees are simply built different.
Ingenuity's mission proposal makes sense here; It was developed as a tech demo as opposed to an operational one. A significant part of the drone was using COTS components (namely a Snapdragon 801 of all things) that weren't even rad-hardened and was exposed to all sorts of radiation for an extended period of time in space. With most missions the tradeoff is typically between risk and reliability, and even one flight on this thing involves a very large risk - 4 initial flights seems relatively reasonable.
Met a few engineers involved with the project, they did mention they ran into a lot of issues internally since the teams on Perseverance gave significant pushback to make sure that it didn't jeopardize the mission. Ingenuity's only a second priority on Mars 2020
it's also speculated that his supervisor [Walther von Tschirnaus](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ehrenfried_Walther_von_Tschirn...) was the original inventor of European porcelain; and that Bottger had stolen Tchirnaus's notes from the family's tutor after von Tchirnaus's death and claimed the invention as his own
> In 1719 the arcanist Samuel Stölzel escaped from Meissen to Vienna and betrayed the secret of porcelain production. He claimed that Tschirnhaus and not Böttger had discovered porcelain. Also in 1719 the secretary general of the manufacture in Meißen, Caspar Bussius reported: "that the invention of porcelain is not due to Böttger but von Tschirnhaus and that Böttger received the written 'science' from Steinbrück
> Three days after Von Tschirnhaus’s death, there was a burglary at his house and, according to a report by Böttger, a small piece of porcelain was stolen. This report suggests that Böttger himself recognized that Von Tschirnhaus already knew how to make porcelain, a key piece of evidence that Von Tschirnhaus and not Böttger was the inventor. Work resumed on 20 March 1709, by which time Melchior Steinbrück had arrived to assess the dead man’s estate, which included the notes about making porcelain, and had met with Böttger. On 28 March 1709, Böttger went to August II and announced the invention of porcelain. Böttger now was nominated to head the first European manufactory for porcelain. Steinbrück became an inspector and married Böttger’s sister.
edit: proof https://twitter.com/thejakenixon/status/1546137641829257219?...