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I believe gp was talking about a failure mode in which station-keeping goes on automatically when communication fails, as we learn that we massively overdone it
by emiliobumachar 11y ago
I believe gp was talking about a failure mode in which station-keeping goes on automatically when communication fails, as we learn that we massively overdone it because climate science is hard.
- cromwellian 11y agoRight, I was talking about a sci-fi failure mode where the onboard program goes haywire and it ends up actively station keeping and maintaining the block for hundreds of years. Is 1.7% not something to worry about? IIRC, Solar variance of 0.1% has correlated with a 0.32F temperature variance. If that relation were linear, that would amount to almost a 5.5F variance. I'm not proposing this as a 'hard scifi' model for a story, but you could tweak the scenario to get suitably scary failures (multiple shades)