If artemis is having problems now, then how did the apollo shuttles do it 60 years ago?
With different materials, almost certainly.
I just think you’re doing your smug little thing again.
Having the ability to self-reflect on a narrative for more than five seconds has nothing to do with personal vanity. The OP’s “argument” is the equivalent of saying, “THEY SAY WE HAD FIREPROOF BUILDINGS IN THE PAST AND WE DON’T HAVE THEM NOW, THEREFORE WE NEVER HAD THEM” while purposely ignoring the fact that we don’t use asbestos anymore for a reason.
Now, my guess would be that they are trying to speed up the mission…
I think the motherfucking retards in charge of the program have finally realized they can’t glide on taxpayer dollars forever in the face of private competition outpacing them. So yes, this could very well be something they’re doing. I agree with that hypothesis.
…they are going down at a steeper/harder angle.
This is exactly the kind of reflection I mean; good work. “What if the materials were good enough for the original mission, but penny-pinching suits and government red-tape dipshits have changed the mission parameters such that the materials don’t work anymore?” is a far more congruent argument than “WE NEVER WENT TO THE MOON AT ALL BECAUSE THE COLLAPSED UNITED STATES CAN’T DO WHAT THE APEX UNITED STATES COULD!”
I doubt they would leave something as crucial as power to digital devices where the 0's and 1's become easily corrupted by stray cosmic particles.
The Space Shuttle had three redundant flight computers, each written in different architectures. The idea was that if any two were hit by radiation or cosmic rays, the third would be able to pick out the incongruities in their reports. And even if they weren’t, if one was malfunctioning and sending bad telemetry data, having two others report concurring data (on entirely different code bases) would expose the one that was wrong and allow the crew to cut it out of the loop.
So they can definitely do digital-only. They just need ludicrous levels of redundancy. And I’m not sure they’re competent enough for that anymore, since NASA’s mission is now to help muslims and not go to space.
Hell maybe even a backup analog computer is prolly not a terrible idea.
Weight. That’s the only reason I’d agree with them not to include one. The weight of an analog machine is massive. You’d destroy your payload margins.
With different materials, almost certainly.
Having the ability to self-reflect on a narrative for more than five seconds has nothing to do with personal vanity. The OP’s “argument” is the equivalent of saying, “THEY SAY WE HAD FIREPROOF BUILDINGS IN THE PAST AND WE DON’T HAVE THEM NOW, THEREFORE WE NEVER HAD THEM” while purposely ignoring the fact that we don’t use asbestos anymore for a reason.
I think the motherfucking retards in charge of the program have finally realized they can’t glide on taxpayer dollars forever in the face of private competition outpacing them. So yes, this could very well be something they’re doing. I agree with that hypothesis.
This is exactly the kind of reflection I mean; good work. “What if the materials were good enough for the original mission, but penny-pinching suits and government red-tape dipshits have changed the mission parameters such that the materials don’t work anymore?” is a far more congruent argument than “WE NEVER WENT TO THE MOON AT ALL BECAUSE THE COLLAPSED UNITED STATES CAN’T DO WHAT THE APEX UNITED STATES COULD!”
The Space Shuttle had three redundant flight computers, each written in different architectures. The idea was that if any two were hit by radiation or cosmic rays, the third would be able to pick out the incongruities in their reports. And even if they weren’t, if one was malfunctioning and sending bad telemetry data, having two others report concurring data (on entirely different code bases) would expose the one that was wrong and allow the crew to cut it out of the loop.
So they can definitely do digital-only. They just need ludicrous levels of redundancy. And I’m not sure they’re competent enough for that anymore, since NASA’s mission is now to help muslims and not go to space.
Weight. That’s the only reason I’d agree with them not to include one. The weight of an analog machine is massive. You’d destroy your payload margins.