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(I'm not the parent commenter) in my opinion more along the lines of thinking behind "move fast and break things" vs "measure twice cut once".

I think mechanical engineers require or develop a more pragmatic attitude. Do-overs in the mechanical realm are often more time consuming or expensive than those in software. And practical experience comes with a lot of learning.

Shim feeler gauges would be readily available in most shops checking wear on moving parts. 0.0025 inches (0.635mm) was included in the first high quality (gearwrench brand) set that I looked up online.

Yes, but... Wolf 1069B is much smaller and closer to its star than this one, so we probably couldn't observe it with Webb.

Detected by the radial velocity method, measuring the parent star being pulled toward and away from us by a variation of at little as 2-3 meters per second! It always blows my mind that we can measure that.

Alternately, you can do the rough machining on a cheaper 3-axis machine (even outsourcing it).

"the lawless depraved passion of their laborers for work"... what in the f**?

It's very very weird. Also seems like they are making it all up based on their assumption of how the internals could fail. Kind of feels like SEO content to me.