On Thu, 2003-10-02 at 09:42, Randall Clague wrote:
> I find it hard to believe that in your years, you have never witnessed
> a crash. If you had, you would know that they are not fun. Crashing
> an amateur rocket, be it Prospector or POGO, is equivalent in money
> and emotion to crashing a restored Model T. It wrecks thousands of
> dollars of hardware, and hundreds of hours of work. It is NOT fun.
Concurred. Crashing sucks. It makes me want to crawl under a rock and
not come out for a while. If a bit of cheap fucking around on my laptop
in my living room can make it less likely, it is a very good thing.
> Physics is physics. If Pierce is using MatLab, I'm sure it's up to
> the task. (Pierce scares me a little. He's as bright as I am, and he
> doesn't just think outside the box, he chops it up and has it for
> lunch.)
Randall, that's the nicest thing anyone has said about me this month
:). The reason I sprang for Matlab is I have good confidence that their
built-in functions work and are properly coded. To get that same
confidence about my own de novo code would require time-consuming
testing, and a whole lot more thought.
> Great, send one out. I'm sure the crew will be happy to assemble it
> and use it.
I want to do some tethered testing if possible. I want an eyebolt in
the underside of POGO so that we can cable it to something large and
heavy (like a big slab of concrete) for tether testing. We'll see what
develops.
-p
--
No science without fancy, no art without facts.
-Vladimir Nabokov
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