Posts by Major_Variola 10 publicly visible posts • joined 16 Feb 2016
LOL all the rocket "science" was done by Newton and then von Braun control-system types.
Most of 'practical rocketry' is engineering.
And perhaps some interesting business models.
For fun, look up Goddard's very common misconceptions about rocket stability and the
amusing demos it produced...
V2 had gyros and vane-control. Modern rockets tend to use gimbals. YMMV.
Rocket science is actually just regular chemical / mechanical / electrical / materials engineering with a very large budget and very large reliability requirements. Its all good engineering, eventually boring, despite the application-domain, iff you will eventually find engineering boring; and if not, engineering dishwashers provides the same satisfaction. Perhaps less brilliant colleages some times.
But much of the hype is well-earned: JPL/Caltech are awesome.
So is MIT :-P
The "Black lives matter" protesters blocked public freeways in the US. As a result, ambulances had to be redirected.
What should happen to these intentional protesters?
Why is that not worse than some poor eastern european releasing some generic ransomwear that happens to nail a hospital?
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