[ale] ***UNCHECKED*** Re: Georgia Absentee voting request

[Jim Kinney]

Yes. Pedantic.

So, yes, engines, guidance, flight controls. That level of "It only does this, exactly this, and nothing but this" code review for election software.

On August 27, 2020 10:49:43 AM EDT, DJ-Pfulio via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:
>On 8/27/20 7:30 AM, Jim Kinney wrote:
>> 
>> The issue I still see is the same company writes all the software;
>> for the counting equipment and for the touchpad ballot printer. I
>> want every line of that code published in journals and studied the
>> way NASA writes code for controlling rocket motors.
>
>Rocket terminology pedantic:
>
>Motors don't have controls beyond start/light and separate. The thrust
>is controlled by the cross-section of the burn surface only. A rocket
>motor thrust profile is controlled by the mould used.
>Motors are like the old Estes rockets or road flares we all had as
>kids.
>
>Perhaps you mean controlling rocket engines? Rocket engines have
>throttles,
>rocket motors do not. Engines are liquid fueled, need pumps, turbos,
>valves, a combustion chamber.
>
>Both motors and engines have nozzles.
>
>- Rocket Scientist.
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