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While I have no specific knowledge on even jet engines, from general engineering principles, who says you cannot have 2 groups of people, one working on your ow
by smilekzs 7y ago
While I have no specific knowledge on even jet engines, from general engineering principles, who says you cannot have 2 groups of people, one working on your own design, the other working on reverse-engineering / replicating others' works? For critical projects like this, it's not hard to imagine a State Actor throwing at least this much resources (including human resources of course) at this. One benefit I can think of is that reverse engineering can shine light on some tough problems during the "forward engineering", like "can this be done at all", and "what is the major concern / bottleneck when designing a particular component". Even if you don't figure out the whole thing, the process can still be useful, especially when you don't already have all the know-how.
- choonway 7y agoThe first thing that you learn when you go into the aviation industry, is that the shortcut is the longest way to get from A to B.
- luba02 7y agostealing jet engine/materials science data and software data are different kettle of fish. different kinds of bottlenecks. I’m assuming one set is more easily transferrable than the other.
- choonway 7y agoFor material science, replication is an issue because of differences in machines etc. Very little standardization. It's like back in those days where HP/SGI/IBM had their own version of 'C' compilers and it was a nightmare to port from one platform to another. Especially when they used non standard behavior (e.g. dereferencing null returns 0) and use it as part of their core logic. You REALLY need to know your stuff to make things work. Source code alone isn't enough.
- blunte 7y agoThis applies to many software projects as well :).