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[tamthebam]

5 hours ago, RandomGuy. said:

Taken from an interview 

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The company's development of the Falcon 9 rocket, with nine engines, had given Musk confidence that SpaceX could scale up to 27 engines in flight, and he believed this was a better overall solution for the thrust needed to escape Earth's gravity. To explain why, the former computer scientist used a computer metaphor.

"It’s sort of like the way modern computer systems are set up," Musk said. "With Google or Amazon they have large numbers of small computers, such that if one of the computers goes down it doesn’t really affect your use of Google or Amazon. That’s different from the old model of the mainframe approach, when you have one big mainframe and if it goes down, the whole system goes down."

For computers, Musk said, using large numbers of small computers ends up being a more efficient, smarter, and faster approach than using a few larger, more powerful computers. So it was with rocket engines. "It’s better to use a large number of small engines," Musk said. With the Falcon Heavy rocket, he added, up to half a dozen engines could fail and the rocket would still make it to orbit.

 

So Strachan was wrong- pack Scotland with lots of little men and if one goes wrong the rest will work! 

[Melanius Mullarkey]

Take it everyone’s getting starkers for the total eclipse the morn, aye?

[Zen Archer (Raconteur)]

39 minutes ago, Melanius Mullarkey said:

Take it everyone’s getting starkers for the total eclipse the morn, aye?

Pics or GTF.

[Melanius Mullarkey]

32 minutes ago, Zen Archer (Raconteur) said:

Pics or GTF.

I’ll send you a moon shot.