It might, but it certainly helps having a ton of them around. Given that they used 42 of them today and 2 failed in some fashion, we'll call that a 1:21 failure rate. On a more typical rocket with say 10 engines (eg falcon 9), there's a good chance they wouldn't have seen the same failure till flight 3.
It's just a fantasy, but wouldn't it be cool if all of the telemetry were public and real time, so we could be going through it and sherlocking the problem as back seat drivers to the real rocket scientists. More eyes make bugs shallow, etc.
tectonic•20m ago