Comments by "Helium Road" (@RCAvhstape) on "Kyle Hill"
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Plainly Difficult did a good video on this too. While obviously the manufacturer bares a huge responsibility for the poor software testing and QA, something needs to be said about the operators' procedural discipline or lack thereof. Blowing off error messages without knowledge of why you are getting them is fine when it's your buggy home PC you are playing with, but when you are operating machines that can kill people, this is unacceptable. It's similar to the space business: when astronauts got computer errors during the Apollo 11 landing, they checked with people who knew exactly what the implications of those errors were before committing to a landing. And speaking of spaceflight code, the code used in the Space Shuttle flight computers is thought to be among the most error-free, best configuration-controlled code in history, and was one of the finest achievements of that program. It was expensive, and it was worth it, because whatever else was wrong with the Shuttle, the flight software was never an issue. The medical industry should take a lesson from that.
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Jerry Pournelle's CoDominion books do a pretty good job of portraying physics-based space combat, to the point where The Expanse almost looks like a copy. These kind of hard sci fi stories always involve a few magic future technologies that make them plausible, mainly the super high thrust, high specific impulse propulsion systems that allow the ships to stay under high accelerations for long periods of time without running out of fuel. Robert Heinlein called this a "torch drive". It allows transiting the Solar System in days or weeks instead of years, and makes for exciting combat encounters where the characters are as likely to die from acceleration injuries as they are from weapons fire.
In a sense, the sub light impulse drive in Star Trek is a torch drive, but matters less because it is overshadowed by so many more magic technologies on that show that take beyond the realm of "hard" sci fi, especially the warp drive, transporters, magic gravity, etc.
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