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The excuse smart people use to avoid admitting something is just algebra with better PR.
means An extremely difficult or complex task — usually invoked sarcastically to point out that something is actually quite simple.
from Rooted in the real discipline of rocketry (from Italian 'rocchetto,' a bobbin, for the cylindrical shape of early rockets), which during the 20th-century space race became shorthand for the pinnacle of technical difficulty. The phrase 'it's not rocket science' emerged as a stock idiom by the mid-to-late 1900s, borrowing the field's reputation for hardness to mean, bluntly, 'this isn't that hard.'
- actual hard part
- Not the math, the not-exploding
- fuel reality
- Most of a rocket's weight is just propellant
- irony
- Rocket scientists call hard things brain surgery instead
- real origin
- Term popularized by WWII-era missile engineers, not NASA