Posts by BattleBotBob 13 publicly visible posts • joined 29 Jan 2015
Due to hydrodynamic shock any projectile penetrating the thin pressure shell will cause rupture. The people who have the most to lose are the foreign governments losing commercial business to SpaceX. A frogman from a submarine sneaks on shore and shoots it with a cryogenically stored ice bullet to destroy the evidence. It must be the SAS protecting ESA launch systems. Or maybe not.
The video is hilarious!
https://www.instagram.com/p/BAqirNbwEc0/?taken-by=elonmusk
It looks like it landed straight up, but when I saw the flames on the deck are not symmetric, I realized that maybe there was more than just a lockout failure. I would hate to think they just chose the one video angle that make it looked like it landed properly. When it becomes a highly edited event with significant delay in release of footage, I worry who they are trying to keep the news away from. I didnt think they had many investors they are trying to manage, but maybe their customers will start worrying if they can't deliver on their much touted rates if they cant actually refly any hardware.
What do you mean "we are breeding to fast"? Last I checked most Europeans and U.S.A. Wasps weren't actually increasing in population. We just practice breeding. So now you must be a racist, wanting "them" to stop breeding, and keep their total consumption down to our rates. Or at least not to exceed the burning of Kuwait oilfields. Let's make sure this debate has nothing to do with science. That should have put it out of bounds and lead to prison terms for all.
While you may wish that was the case, reality is far different. You design for failure modes; you verify critical cases, do verification fm with instrumentation in qual and flight test; and eliminate as much instrumentation as possible for weight and cost. The closest you come to your imagination, is a top level failure modes and effects analysis, with a ranking items that cause loss of the vehicle or life (ground or on orbit if they get that far.). There is hardly a detailed fault tree. At the top they have some bright people to connect times and observations but this is too quick and too simple to reflect a detailed fault tree analysis.
And the designer of the strut could only design to the load cases supplied by Space X. Space X is responsible for doing a design review. I don't understand why so many fanboys believe all the PR and give Space X a pass on their responsibilities? Space flight is tough and when you cut corners and reviews this is what happens. Maybe this was a new lesson learned or maybe the bright new engineers missed some basics from past lessons learned.
Thank you for a real observation. Having a failure at 2000 pounds instead of 10, 000 pounds sounds like major shortcuts in engineering and understanding failure modes, rather than quality control. Or maybe it is the first item they could assign blame, rather than the results of an indepth fault tree. It certainly keeps the illusion that Space X is the genius organization we are meant to believe. Don't look behind the curtain. And how that translates to a 3 year delay for the heavy lift vehicle seems like a manufactured excuse to cover up a separate underlying issues. Space X works Congress and NASA pretty heavily so that good PR is their lifeblood.
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Obviously you spell your sponsors' names correctly!
As in "REHAB is a Go For the LOHAN team!" Or "REHAB Gives OK for LOHAN flight."
And I don't need the RockBLOCK so give it to a deserving team member. But I still want to buy the original Kickstarter LOHAN mug.
Charlie Stross does an outstanding job of near future computer issues in "Halting State." It is full of enhanced reality used by cops on the beat, Chinese hackers, mmorpg banks, and self driving cars. His sequel. Rule 34, fad lots on 3D printing and AI but isn't quite as much of a fun read.
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