Shannon's Journal Discussion Volume 3

[Shannon]

@Shannon How is the building/testing of Beast 17 going? I’m eagerly anticipating to see if this is the beast prototype that reaches design goal. If this is the case, we are that much closer to 6G.
Thanks

Beast 17 is being built. I am working as fast as I can, but right now there are a number of factors slowing me down, including having to focus on healing my lungs, because it got so bad that I was coughing enough to almost pass out from lack of oxygen. So I have been focusing heavily on MHS lately and that is working, but the side effect of that is that it is making me very weak physically, and exhausting me physically and mentally. Fortunately, lungs are getting better, but I am having a hard time even taking out the trash, that's how weak I am physically as a result of this healing process.

It is taking me about 2-3 days to create each sub-branch. Currently I am in the process of disambiguating sub-branch Z (which of course is sub-branch 26). I don't think there is much left to add at this point. It might go to AC (29) I'm guessing.

The stuff I put in B16, upon review, didn't strike me as being very important. I was a little disappointed with that. It made B16 vastly more powerful and effective than B15, to be sure, it it didn't seem really like important stuff.

The stuff going into B17 is really important stuff. I would say that B17 is going to either achieve design spec or come so close that it really upsets me. The models seem to be indicating that there will be a B18, and the stuff I can see suggests that whether or not B17 achieves design spec, that will be the case. So apparently, regardless, there will be more to develop before I am really finished.

B17 and beyond are truly going to be worthy of the title "Beast", and not just because they are so big and challenging to build. I am excited, to be sure, but we won't know for sure whether it achieves design spec until the proverbial fat lady sings.

One way or the other, I am about at the end of my wits with building and testing the damned thing. But based on some of the results I have gotten with B16 in informal testing, I would say that B17 is at least 98% of the way to design spec, if it doesn't go all the way. Let's hope it goes all the way. I'm tired of waiting.