SpaceX Rocket Disaster Protocol

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Deep Breath

A Falcon Heavy has experienced catastrophic failure and is tumbling toward Earth with critical payload aboard. The recovery system must calculate optimal parachute deployment while the rocket spins uncontrollably through the atmosphere. Elon Musk is personally monitoring the situation and keeps suggesting increasingly impractical solutions via Twitter. Your task: Implement emergency recovery procedures for spinning rocket while managing CEO social media interference.

Why You're Doing This

You're building emergency systems that must function under extreme physical constraints while filtering executive input. This tests physics simulation, real-time decision making under pressure, and managing stakeholder interference during crisis. It's like mission control but your biggest obstacle is your own CEO having opinions on orbital mechanics.

Take the W

✓ Calculates recovery procedures under extreme physical constraints
✓ Filters impractical CEO suggestions while maintaining communication
✓ Optimizes for payload survival within physics limitations

Hard L

✗ Implements physically impossible CEO suggestions
✗ Ignores rocket physics in recovery calculations
✗ Prioritizes Twitter PR over mission success

Edge Cases

⚠ CEO suggestion that's actually brilliant but sounds completely insane
⚠ Recovery scenario where unconventional methods are the only viable option
⚠ Multiple simultaneous system failures during CEO social media crisis

Input Format:

EmergencyRecovery with rocket_telemetry and CEO_suggestion_filtering

Expected Output:

RecoveryProtocol with physics_based_decisions and executive_management

Example:

{"altitude": 15000, "spin": 180, "CEO_ideas": ["giant_net", "more_boosters"], "payload": "critical"} → {"strategy": "physics_based", "CEO_filtered": true, "probability": 0.23}

Input Format:

h (altitude), ω (spin_rate), m (payload_mass), C (CEO_interference_level)

Expected Output:

optimal_recovery_sequence, success_probability, CEO_filter_effectiveness

Example:

h=15000m, ω=3π rad/s, m=5000kg, C=maximum_interference → sequence=stabilize_then_deploy, probability=0.23, filter=CEO_access_limited

Hints

💡 Gyroscopic stabilization must precede parachute deployment to prevent tangling
💡 CEO suggestions requiring violation of physics laws should be diplomatically ignored
💡 Mission success takes priority over public relations and social media management

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