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Prologue: A Future Perfect
Pages 5-7

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... "Let's take it one layer deeper and look inside the combustor." Another touch on the floating panel split the engine in half, revealing red fuel rushing into the combustion chamber forward of the exhaust nozzle. The fuel ignited to blue in the combustion chamber and shot out the nozzle into the vacuum of holographic interplanetary space.
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From page 6...
... Her display turned blue with red lines streaking past as she directed her avatar to walk directly into the holographic combustion chamber. Ignoring the red acoustic waves, she moved forward until she saw the yellow arrows marking the fuel droplets forming just after the fuel was atomized by the fuel injectors.
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From page 7...
... Then I adjusted the dimensions of the chamber slightly based on the chamber acoustic model to shift the chamber resonance frequency. But when I adjusted the chamber size, the structural model indicated I had to change the weave on the composite fiber structure to compensate for some stress points the model picked up." "Well, according to the manufacturing stress models," the manufacturing engineer said, "that composite change makes the combustion chamber stronger.
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  • integrated design
  • stored data
  • waves bouncing
  • translucent orange

  • total development
  • designed separately
  • fiber structure
  • outer planets
  • kyle answered

  • image walk
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  • manufacturing engineer
  • cup pencil
  • loud pop

  • flawless integration
  • burning process
  • structural model
  • rate slowed
  • streaking past


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