Re: SpaceX armchair quarterbacking

Rand Simberg (simberg.interglobal@xxxxxxxxx) wrote:
: On Tue, 28 Mar 2006 19:26:05 +0000 (UTC), in a place far, far away,
: echomko_at_@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Eric Chomko) made the phosphor on my
: monitor glow in such a way as to indicate that:

: >: >> I think they will be able to fix the bugs the traditional way, but I
: >: >> would love to see them move to a more incremental flight testing
: >: >> approach in the future.
: >: >
: >: >All up on the first try IS the traditional way.
: >
: >: The traditional way has given us very high costs, and very low
: >: reliability.
: >
: >What is the untraditional way that will give us low costs and high
: >reliability?

: Can't you read? It's written just above: "...a more incremental
: flight testing approach..."

That sentence fragment says it all?

Who knew? (To steal your phrase.)

Gee Rand, maybe the fact that 25 words or more might answer the question
rather than a sentence fragment; has you at being a wannabe rather than
an actual engineer?

The above makes about as much sense as saying such and such software
system will work if we only did more debugging. Duh....

Eric
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