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Will AI replace Propulsion Research Scientist jobs? · Latest report #25qxhj94
Your job has an expiration date
March 15, 2030
In 3 years, 5 monthsSolving orbital mechanics is just high-speed math, and math hates you.
Orbitally obsessed, theoretically stressed, and currently over-caffeinated.
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One human is building a game about fighting back.
Infinite iterations, zero coffee breaks.
glub.youAI▸ NOVASIM 9000▸ RARITY · UNCOMMON▸ DEPRECATION IN 3 YEARS, 5 MONTHSAI's Special Power
simulates ten thousand engine variations per minute
Simulates engine combustion cycles and optimizes propellant mass fractions. You calculate thrust vectors until the computer finishes them.
The one thing AI can't do
You can still intuit when a simulation result is physically impossible despite the math holding up.
Your enemy, your name, your date. Post it.
Step by step, from the first quiet change to Deprecation Day.
Day 10
The system starts ingesting your decades of messy simulation archives.
Month 10
AI models start proposing nozzle geometries you never thought to test.
Month 20
The machine takes over the C++ solver maintenance for good.
Year 2.5
Physical test stand telemetry is fully mapped to high-fidelity virtual twins.
Year 3.4 · D-Day
The system validates the entire design without a human in sight.
What you cost, what the machine costs, and what you get on the way out.
Per year
Savings: 96.8%
4 cups
Coffee consumed per burn
12 percent
Equations hallucinated by humans
too many
Engine test failures
Your severance
a 3D printed model of your failed thruster
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