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Synopsis Of Sci Fi Paper

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Carl Ross
Dr. Erika Harnett
ESS 102
8 December 2016

Synopsis of Sci-Fi Paper
Imagine yourself a passenger of a spacecraft, a pioneer of a species. Plunging onwards into the darkness, entrapped in a delicate capsule of polymers and plastics. Mere inches of carbonate polymer composites meant to defend against the relentless onslaught of disfiguring radiation (Nace). Materials selected more for their absence of mass than presence of durability. A product of the ever pervasive rocket equation and the binding grip of Earth’s gravitational pull. Moreover, imagine this odyssey as a mission to Pluto, intended to place you as the first person on mars. A proof of concept, affirmation that human expansion is possible. But on this voyage you were exclusively a passenger, the intricate details of the bi-elliptic transfer orbital maneuver (David A. Vallado) entrusted to an artificial intelligence. Under such conditions, how would you react to a solar flare, the resulting throng of gamma radiation engulfing your thinly encapsulated ship just as the artificial pilot computed the final decisive maneuvering, likely corrupting the computation. Would you trust the result? Or a growing, gnawing feeling in your gut, insistent that the maneuvering is wrong. With inadequate time to query earth (a 15.5-hour ping (Wild)), what do you decide? Hence is the premise of my sci-fi paper.

Computational Functional Failures Resulting from Radiation
As humanities’ extraterrestrial expeditions progress

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