Unless one has worked on a project, one has an almost insurmountable obstacle in altering project data to make the project do something other than what it is intended. It is easy to, say, rip out the guts and destroy the wiring. It is very hard to reprogram the unit. You need both knowledge of how it was programmed, and a very good memory for the details. Frex, if you wanted your GPS to display the wrong coords, even if it was modular, could you just replace the chip and have it do so? Well if you were the one that developed that unit, and had the schematics or the exact way that the coordinates were created, stored, or displayed you might have a chance. =-=-=-=- So the above tries to bring a touch of engineering to this comic, with the understanding that the ‘comic logic and physics’ is likely to prevail, ==-=-= Also, it is just one rocket. While your usual V2 was a disaster, it was at most a block wide disaster. The need to get to orbit does mean that there is more fuel, more explosive power, but there is a limit on how much one rocket can do. Again, likely comic physics will prevail.
Unless one has worked on a project, one has an almost insurmountable obstacle in altering project data to make the project do something other than what it is intended. It is easy to, say, rip out the guts and destroy the wiring. It is very hard to reprogram the unit. You need both knowledge of how it was programmed, and a very good memory for the details. Frex, if you wanted your GPS to display the wrong coords, even if it was modular, could you just replace the chip and have it do so? Well if you were the one that developed that unit, and had the schematics or the exact way that the coordinates were created, stored, or displayed you might have a chance. =-=-=-=- So the above tries to bring a touch of engineering to this comic, with the understanding that the ‘comic logic and physics’ is likely to prevail, ==-=-= Also, it is just one rocket. While your usual V2 was a disaster, it was at most a block wide disaster. The need to get to orbit does mean that there is more fuel, more explosive power, but there is a limit on how much one rocket can do. Again, likely comic physics will prevail.