The onboard computers on the Apollo moon shots were comparable in memory and processing power to...Machine Regime wrote: they're a band, not Apollo m*****n control..
the chip in a musical greetings card.
Musings on the Apollo missions
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the chip in a musical greetings card.
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There were men in those days. The heroes of old, men of renown.markfiend wrote:The onboard computers on the Apollo moon shots were comparable in memory and processing power to...
the chip in a musical greetings card.
Now? Bureaucratic and regulatory red-tape would prevent it ever happening.
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The most successful tyranny is not the one that uses force to assure uniformity but the one that removes the awareness of other possibilities, that makes it seem inconceivable that other ways are viable, that removes the sense that there is an outside.
The most successful tyranny is not the one that uses force to assure uniformity but the one that removes the awareness of other possibilities, that makes it seem inconceivable that other ways are viable, that removes the sense that there is an outside.
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I think I'll split this out, we're a bit off topic...We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the others, too.
The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.
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Hah, wonderful ...Quiff Boy wrote:BIG RIG!
amazing it ever worked tbh.
and the good doktor circa 2011:
how times change... finally!
... and it has definitely made a difference ... ...Oh yesss ...markfiend wrote:I think I'll split this out, we're a bit off topic...We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the others, too.
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Oops, I accidentally included your post when I split the topic. Sorry!
The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.
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Sorry!
Anyway, the furthest people get from the Earth these days is low-Earth-orbit (the International Space Station ranges from 376 km to 398 km altitude); the Moon is around a thousand times as far away.
If we were to scale down the Earth-moon system so the Earth was equivalent in size to a basketball, the ISS is at an altitude of about 7.5mm (just over a quarter of an inch). At that scale, the Moon is over 7 metres (23 feet) away.
Anyway, the furthest people get from the Earth these days is low-Earth-orbit (the International Space Station ranges from 376 km to 398 km altitude); the Moon is around a thousand times as far away.
If we were to scale down the Earth-moon system so the Earth was equivalent in size to a basketball, the ISS is at an altitude of about 7.5mm (just over a quarter of an inch). At that scale, the Moon is over 7 metres (23 feet) away.
The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.
—Bertrand Russell
—Bertrand Russell