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I see the appeal of making a rocket for example that crashes into the landscape somewhere making a big explosion. That is somewhat cool. Making thousands to be shot into cities on the other hand, that's murder for profit. On a different note, things being 'cool' is being used way too often to justify terrible or plain unnecessary things. And unnecessary things are too harmful to be produced lightly in a world with limited resources and an impeding climate crisis. My hot take is that downscaling transistors in accordance with Moore's Law is a top example for this. All the 'increased efficiency' argument falls apart when considering the chip's production chain, leakage currents and the fact that no one downscales the same processor exactly but instead more devices are added.