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There was enormous engineering effort put in with close coordination of physicists, but those 14 prior baffle configurations could have just as easily been 140.
by dotancohen 2y ago
There was enormous engineering effort put in with close coordination of physicists, but those 14 prior baffle configurations could have just as easily been 140.
For a relevant example, even just the oil formulation for Water Displacement on the exterior of the steel Atlas rockets took 40 iterations. Hence naming the product WD-40.
- HPsquared 2y agoI wonder how many of the other baffle designs and water displacement formulations would still have been "good enough" - not optimal but usable?
- dotancohen 2y agoAt least for the baffles: None. That's why they kept going. Presumably there are even better possibly designs, but they were not discovered because one that works was found. I don't know about the prior WD formulations.