[Lower Deck]

All the smart people here on FR say that they will need 20 years to master the steam catapult.

Why would it take them 20 years to master technology that has been around for 60 years or more?

[T-Bone Texan]

It would take them that long to get all the bugs out.

It is a complicated system. There is a lot of stuff that can go wrong.

And of course, training.