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Some disciplines just don't lend themselves to the "rapid prototyping" mindset. Imagine a process engineer scaling up a chemical reaction in the pilot plant and
by HarryHirsch 6y ago
Some disciplines just don't lend themselves to the "rapid prototyping" mindset. Imagine a process engineer scaling up a chemical reaction in the pilot plant and neglecting the cooling capacity of the reaction vessel. A thermal runaway is encountered, and the vessel contents, 100s of liters of flammable organic solvent are distributed throughout the building.
The fire chief will want to have a word with the rapid prototyper, sizing the thermal budget has been practice for 100 years.
Software engineers have an odd mindset towards bugs. It's already an outrage that when you activate a new cellphone the first thing the device does is download gigabytes of updates. It's a disgrace.
- jlmorton 6y agoAt the same time, out of the rest of the new super-heavy launchers under development, New Glenn, Vulcan, SLS, Ariane 6, and Long March 9, none have flown. Yenisei is expected in 2028. Meanwhile, SpaceX continues welding sections of their new rocket in tents in the Texas brush land, and days ago performed one of the most impressive tests in recent memory.
- dgrin91 6y agoBut thats not prototyping... thats testing in production. Two different things. Prototyping would be an engineer in a lab with a scaled down version of whatever process he is working with. He tries 10 options, 9 of which blow up. But since its scaled down the blow up is just a little fizzle, so who cares. The 10th option that worked can be developed more and eventually brought to the full production plant