The amusing term that Musk came up with beginning with the first failed launch of the Starship is RUD or Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly. There have been several RUDs of the SpaceX Starship heavy lift rocket all occurring shortly after liftoff downrange.
It’s amazing the number of folks that don’t get or appreciate sarcasm or self-deprecating humor. RUD is right up there with an aircraft engine having an out of cowling experience.
It knows what what we are doing to it in any case. Maybe in 10,000 years it might adapt if we continue on the same inglorious path.
Yeah, in the software business we called it “Rapid Prototyping”. The idea was to cobble together enough code to get the right output, for the most part. The classical method, harking back to the days of overnight turnarounds, was to painstakingly code for every conceivable possibility, and then throw every inconceivable form of bad data at it, before releasing it to production.
The only advantage of RP was that it got you a piece of code that would handle the 90-percentile data it would encounter. You could then foist the problem off on the anal-retentive Test&Validation geeks, who, it was hoped, would identify and mitigate the outlier cases. Unfortunately, in nearly all the shops doing RP, they didn’t actually have anyone doing T&V, so by default the code ended up in production. This meant that when an unforeseen combination of factors aligned, there was a very public crash.
NASA used the classical development model, and even then there were notable tragedies. (Frozen O-rings in Florida, really?). It should take a long time before any vehicle designed to the Musk philosophy is allowed to carry humans. Too many unknown unknowns.
The Yucatan blast that was an extinction event for most animals is scientific evidence the earth is in charge. It recovered nicely, yes?
Vostok ice core samples also dictate that the climate “crisis” is a monetary hoax.
The samples say temperature started rising THEN CO2 started rising.
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