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.

@Shannon

I hope your lungs heal up and you get as much rest as possible and don't push yourself too hard.
I figured you were very close to reaching design goal but didn't know how close you precisely were.

I am very excited though because it seems you are close to finishing the first part of 6G development and can extract all of the tech from Beast.
I hope the rest of the process is not as time consuming as the first part.

The issue is that I can heal my lungs, but I cannot yet fix them. So I have to periodically heal my lungs to keep going.

Once I have achieved design spec, the rest is relatively simple by comparison, and very fast in comparison as well. Instead of spending the next 5 years developing the rest of the steps, it should be about 4 to 6 months from achieving design spec to having the tech mined and skeleton script for 6G ready, depending on what subs I build along the way.

So if B17 achieves design spec sometime in September, we might see 6G be ready by about January to March 2019. If I have to build B18 to achieve design spec, then we're probably going to see that come out around November/December 2018, and 6G should be ready no later than May/June of 2019, presuming everything goes well.

This is of course a rough estimate, and keep in mind my history of not being correct when I say when something subliminal will be finished, but we are definitely going to see 6G in 2019 one way or the other.