[Coco] [OT] Remember text based Lunar Lander?

[wdg3rd at comcast.net]

----- "Aaron Banerjee" <spam_proof at verizon.net> wrote:

> Funny you should bring up this topic.  I happened to stumble across my
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> work from an optimal control class back in grad school where we solved
>  
> landing a rocket using minimum time and energy.  I'll scan it and send
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> it to whoever wants it.  Helps if you speak a little physics (e.g.  
> Hamiltonians, Euler equations, etc).  If I'm bored enough, I'll  
> translate it into word and explain the work.

Grad School?  I working out those problems before I was in Junior High, back while LBJ was setting the stage for the ultimate corruption of NASA.  Nothing complicated, just simple second-order derivatives.  Contrary to popular cliche, rocket science ain't all that hard.  Now the engineering to implement those simple equations in the real world instead of on paper, _that_ can be hard.
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Ward Griffiths        wdg3rd at comcast.net