• lath@lemmy.world
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    19 hours ago

    Half of those are jabs at management, the other half are reasonable experiments.

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      19 hours ago

      I would love to see some of them, like the systems never intended to work (bottom left).

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        18 hours ago

        I’m not sure they are as real as OP claims, unfortunately. I looked up NASA-TN-D-6193 for you, but its actual title is “Dynamic and static wind tunnel tests of a flow direction vane”.

        Edit: happily, the content of the paper really is about formalizing the performance rating of a device that had been used in conditions beyond its original intended use.

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          I also looked three of them up on the NASA Technical Report Server and got other results.

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            12 hours ago

            Did you really get other results, or did you get papers that were still accurately described by the editorialized titles? On the one I looked up, the author and publication date were the same, and it really was about “the repeated survival of systems never intended to work [under the more extreme than designed conditions they were subjected to]” even if the actual title wasn’t that spicy.

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              Oh shit, i didn’t consider that… I’ll look again later tonight. I wanted to check out the wobbly one. lol