Quote from: MATTBLAK on 03/15/2017 12:33 pmFlight of The DragonBy Matthew Pavletich..“There be a Dragon,” the young woman said, her voice quavering with emotion. “From this night on; there will always be Dragons…”From one (amateur) writer to another. Thank you sir. Well written!
Flight of The DragonBy Matthew Pavletich..“There be a Dragon,” the young woman said, her voice quavering with emotion. “From this night on; there will always be Dragons…”
Quote from: Cherokee43v6 on 03/15/2017 02:08 pmQuote from: MATTBLAK on 03/15/2017 12:33 pmFlight of The DragonBy Matthew Pavletich..“There be a Dragon,” the young woman said, her voice quavering with emotion. “From this night on; there will always be Dragons…”From one (amateur) writer to another. Thank you sir. Well written!Yes, yes! Thank you!!
Quote from: docmordrid on 03/15/2017 06:04 pmQuote from: Cherokee43v6 on 03/15/2017 02:08 pmQuote from: MATTBLAK on 03/15/2017 12:33 pmFlight of The DragonBy Matthew Pavletich..“There be a Dragon,” the young woman said, her voice quavering with emotion. “From this night on; there will always be Dragons…”From one (amateur) writer to another. Thank you sir. Well written!Yes, yes! Thank you!!I have more...
Well... I was allowing for the longest inevitable schedule slip, but still bringing it close to the 50th Anniversary of Apollo 13. It is quite likely that the Dragon crew will swing out even farther than Lovell's crew did, making the Dragon's 'Citizen Explorers' the farthest humans have ever traveled.
I've only had a trio of short stories appear in a couple SF anthologies, both of which are out of print. I have quite a few unpublished short stories and two rather unfinished novels - one of them an alternate history 1980s space story. I'll be working on the full version of "Flight Of The Dragon" over the next two or three days and can place it on this page as a downloadable PDF if people would like.
Indirectly, Moore's law helps everything.
The fact that a noob company can work on a state of the art SC engine and get it to work so quickly is very much a consequence of ML.
If your rocket engine designer starts to build rocket engines as a hobby in his spare time, you as a company are doing something terribly wrong.
Quote from: meekGee on 03/15/2017 01:31 pmIndirectly, Moore's law helps everything.Somehow, Moore's law helps SpaceX more than it helps NASA. This suggests something else is the reason for the difference,QuoteThe fact that a noob company can work on a state of the art SC engine and get it to work so quickly is very much a consequence of ML.It's more of a consequence SpaceX taking a genius rocket engine designer, who was bored to death at TRW, where his "rocket engine design" duties consisted of tons of paperwork, and let him actually, you know, *build rocket engines*."""During his time at TRW, Mueller felt that his ideas were being lost in a diverse corporation and as a hobby he began to build his own engines. He would attach them to airframes and launch them in the Mojave Desert along with other members of the Reaction Research Society.In late 2001, Mueller began developing a liquid-fueled rocket engine in his garage and later moved his project to a friend's warehouse in 2002."""If your rocket engine designer starts to build rocket engines as a hobby in his spare time, you as a company are doing something terribly wrong.
... a descent under parachutes to a dessert landing, softened by the SuperDracos.
It is a repeat to say my guess would be a descent under parachutes to a dessert landing, softened by the SuperDracos.
Indirectly, Moore's law helps everything.The fact that a noob company can work on a state of the art SC engine and get it to work so quickly is very much a consequence of ML.The fact that you can finance a huge project using the constellation is a result of ML since the demand originates with smart phones and self driving cars.As folks said, the computational power needed for fly-back and landing is not found in older rockets.And of course, ISP proper has got nothing to do with it.
Quote from: meekGee on 03/15/2017 01:31 pmIndirectly, Moore's law helps everything.The fact that a noob company can work on a state of the art SC engine and get it to work so quickly is very much a consequence of ML.The fact that you can finance a huge project using the constellation is a result of ML since the demand originates with smart phones and self driving cars.As folks said, the computational power needed for fly-back and landing is not found in older rockets.And of course, ISP proper has got nothing to do with it. SpaceX is most certainly NOT a noob company at this point. And they've been working on Raptor for years, building on their knowledge of building Merlins for a decade.It's also not machine learning (which is a specific thing by the way, and it requires a large training set to work, thus not applicable here) that they used for Raptor but an interesting algorithm for studying fractals complex fluid flows efficiently.