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Posted: 14 Dec 2011, 16:00
by markfiend
Machine Regime wrote: they're a band, not Apollo m*****n control..
The onboard computers on the Apollo moon shots were comparable in memory and processing power to...
the chip in a musical greetings card.
Posted: 14 Dec 2011, 16:13
by sultan2075
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.
There were men in those days. The heroes of old, men of renown.
Now? Bureaucratic and regulatory red-tape would prevent it ever happening.
Posted: 14 Dec 2011, 16:34
by markfiend
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.
I think I'll split this out, we're a bit off topic...
Posted: 14 Dec 2011, 16:35
by Being645
Quiff Boy wrote:BIG RIG!
amazing it ever worked tbh.
and the good doktor circa 2011:
how times change... finally!
Hah, wonderful ...
... and it has definitely made a difference ...
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markfiend wrote: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.
I think I'll split this out, we're a bit off topic...
Oh yesss ...
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Posted: 14 Dec 2011, 16:36
by markfiend
Oops, I accidentally included your post when I split the topic. Sorry!
Posted: 14 Dec 2011, 16:39
by Being645
Well, hell now .....
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Posted: 14 Dec 2011, 16:56
by markfiend
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.