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Oct 2, 2016 5:33 AM
TheGhostOfHarambe
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Goodmerlinpeen
And a bunch of the best brains around.
fivecharacters
And they were able to build this in a cave! With a box of scraps!
LostInTrainStation
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4846340/?ref_=nv_sr_1 this
IMadeThisAccountToTellYouThatDogMemeIsTFBRelated
So I can use my phone to get to the moon?
jsnforce
32 Kilobytes of RAM.
Pikkupanda
Well, I'm not Tony Stark.
rouverius
Forgotten fact: Also, a great deal of religious conviction. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_in_space
DaveTheReaper
shit this picture alone takes more memory than the entire "computer" which was knitted by hand, that went to the moon
valen00
It literally was knitted by hand btw guys, magnetic core memory old school
Skepticoolthree
Lies . the van Allen belt would fry everything
lenomdeplume
Probably the last time NASA could do something that SFX couldn't. Most don't realize that movie technology, at that time, was primitive.
Aguynamedcarl
@OP dicks out
crazyinternet
https://www.quora.com/Who-have-been-some-of-the-most-badass-female-programmers
7562d1b7c8
It's almost as if you can't meaningfully compare clock cycles between general and specialist devices as a 1:1 performance proxy.
Lagbeard
A modern cellphone might be much more powerful, but it don't come with millions of budget and a bunch of rocket scientists.
moodytravesty
Less powerful than my calculator, even.
Arepapp
ICantFindACleverName
TremendouslyBestWords
But...that's the point. Design that rocket with sliderules. I dare you.
valen00
As a space scientist who is studying computer science at the moment, both of these are correct. Also the MCU in your microwave is probably 1
valen00
faster than what they had on the Apollo missions (depending on the age of your microwave)
Lugh314159
CELL PHONE!? You did it with a computer less powerful than my graphing calculator!
barrettsmithbb
I heard that the Apollo computer was less powerful than those greeting cards that make sound when you open them up.
isthiswhereiputmyusernameat
That was the computational power the allies had in WW2
haloid2010
First time I saw this, I still had a Nokia construction brick for a phone. So.... Thats what they were talking about.
Lugh314159
... "...less powerful than my scientific calculator." ?
haloid2010
but yeah. Graphing calculator would kick its ass too.
TheZade
not even just less powerful than your cellphone, probably less powerful than your watch, and many of your children's toys.
TheZade
There is a decent chance that your cellphone has more computing power than existed in the entire world at the time of the moon landing.
sticksosteel
Iron Sky has a fun bit about this. Also, a super hot nazi lady...
iLoveItWhenMyFingersSmellLikePussy
Source for those who are interested: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ziVpqh9UXmI
ProfessorMorifarty
I mean the sex was great, but I did Nazi that coming.
NickBlacksHumor
Yeah and your computer wasn't full of adware and bloatware
RetConMan
"Find hot singles in only 10 miles away!"
SwiftyRich
"Here" as in the studio they used to film the whole thing in with Stanley Kubrick?
reiuyi
xD the scientific equipment left on the moon was placed there by aliens, right?
giveittomestraightlikeapearcidermadefrom100percentpears
*I'm of course not a conspiracy theorist. But they did launch Surveyor 1, which did a soft landing. That could have dropped stuff off.
reiuyi
I'm pretty sure the lunar laser ranging experiment,was placed there during Apollo. As mentioned, the equipment did not appear by itself
giveittomestraightlikeapearcidermadefrom100percentpears
It was, you're correct. But i'm saying that the Surveyor 1 could have dropped off the same reflector laser ranging equipment.
giveittomestraightlikeapearcidermadefrom100percentpears
*Or the Russian Luna probes for that matter.
ProfessorMorifarty
The less powerful computer was purposeful. You know how sometimes your desktop or phone crashes? You don't want that to happen in space.
daelith
Given my cellphone has more computational power than NASA at the time of the moon landing, no. Everything was hand coded, still errored out.
declaredsomnium
1201 and 1202 error alarms happened just before Apollo 11 landed. It was dumping less important tasks
bladderinfection
And Microsoft gives you a blue screen when a video driver crashes...progress!
declaredsomnium
Well, we don't risk a horrendous death if our PC crashes
bladderinfection
My point is that if one system fails, just dump it and move on, not stop everything and complain...I am a Linux fan.
ProfessorMorifarty
I wasn't saying NASA had access to that, rather, that NASA tends to use less powerful tech than is available for the sake of stability.
daelith
That has less to do with crashing and more to do with the physical size of transistors. As they get smaller, they're more vulnerable 1/
daelith
to cosmic radiation randomly changing data. The further outside the atmosphere you go, the more they're affected by it. 2/2
ProfessorMorifarty
SEUs are absolutely a factor, but not the only one. Cooling and stability are equally important; the latter being affected by software >>
bellaluna
But weren't the rockets controlled by a computer? I'm legit asking, I dunno how any of that works.
NickBlacksHumor
Gyros
bellaluna
Sounds delicious, but ineffective.
kk4c
yes, and you can download the entire apollo flight computer as an app on your phone
bellaluna
Why would I do that? I can't send shit to space, can I?
NickBlacksHumor
Hobby shops can send all the shit you want up there
GandalfsLawyer
Like my index finger!
TheGhostOfHarambe
What's the name of the app?
ThatRandomCanadian
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daelith
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app?mt=8">https://itunes.appl">/dsky">?mt=8">https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/dsky/id567387896?mt=8 OR http://www.ibiblio.org/apollo/download.html OR http://svtsim.com/moonjs/agc.html
coolguy4206969
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TheGhostOfHarambe
Thanks.