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I’d love VASIMR to work, but the dev process has been horrifically long and I am not optimistic. Someday, someone will figure it out.

• grondilu 9y ago
  I may be throwing a pie in the sky here, but is there any reasonable hope that AI will be able to design rocket engines, including ones based on advanced concepts like VASIMR, in the coming decades?
  • maxxxxx 9y ago
    To me it seems AI will be good at optimizing things but probably not good at coming up with breakthrough technology.
    • crooked-v 9y ago
      Viewed from far enough away, all of rocketry is an optimization problem.
      • maxxxxx 9y ago
        Very true at this time. Progress is very incremental until someone comes up with a fundamentally new method.