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So much for exploring space beyond the solar system, then. If it takes more than a hundred years to get anywhere, all your automated control systems are dead.
by tuatoru 2y ago
So much for exploring space beyond the solar system, then. If it takes more than a hundred years to get anywhere, all your automated control systems are dead.
- Pet_Ant 2y agoThey are talking about individual components and what _can_ happen. What you can in these cases is a whole other layer of engineering. You want multiple redundancies. With concensus of independent units running. So have something like 15 guidance computers. 5 running (so that each has 2 back-ups) and their output goes to concensus to determine the actual action. Of course the concensus mechanism will need redundancy so maybe each concensus mechanism controls between 0-25% of the throttle... It's all doable. It's just hard.