🧵 2024: "Going to the moon is an enormous challenge, we're a long way off from ever doing it"
Anonymous at Thu, 14 Mar 2024 17:45:47 UTC No. 16077304
>1972
Anonymous at Thu, 14 Mar 2024 17:55:07 UTC No. 16077327
Apollo Guidance Computer:
-24000 transistors
-1 MHz
-4kB of RAM clocked at 85kHz
-72kB of ROM
PHILIPS ONEBLADE electric shaver:
-65000 transistors (almost 3x more complex)
-64 MHz (64x faster)
-4kB of RAM clocked at 64MHz (752x faster)
-64kB of ROM
Anonymous at Thu, 14 Mar 2024 19:18:18 UTC No. 16077532
>>16077327
if only computer performance was the most difficult part of getting to the moon we would all be able to get there for $39.95 but its not. NASAs current moon program is underfunded and there is little political will to boost nasas budget by %500
The best hope is that the chinese will conduct a manned moon landing to provide congress with a jingoistic motivation to give nasa more money. The US moon landings in the 60s were paid for to demonstrate that US (military) technology was superior to anybody else and the chinese may now have a similar motive to prove they can match or exceed the fading US now.
Anonymous at Thu, 14 Mar 2024 19:21:46 UTC No. 16077537
>>16077327
You forgot the funniest part, the physical dimensions and mass of each computer.
Anonymous at Thu, 14 Mar 2024 19:24:46 UTC No. 16077545
in the 60s it was all like
>some of you will die but that is a risk I am willing to take
they are not willing to take that risk anymore so they can no longer do it like they did then
Anonymous at Thu, 14 Mar 2024 19:30:26 UTC No. 16077557
>>16077304
They're trying to land a 15 stories tall building on the moon now though. Not a turbo small cuckbox that will keep you alive for 3 days max.
Anonymous at Thu, 14 Mar 2024 19:38:47 UTC No. 16077572
>>16077305
There could be cell relays inside all the tunnels if people cared enough. That would be socialism though.
Anonymous at Thu, 14 Mar 2024 19:56:55 UTC No. 16077611
>>16077304
>"Going to the moon is an enormous challenge, we're a long way off from ever doing it
Who are you quoting?
Anonymous at Thu, 14 Mar 2024 20:01:04 UTC No. 16077619
>>16077304
It's fine, China and Indian will have taken the risks and reaped the rewards that western nations aren't willing to attempt. Who dares wins, and that's not whites.
Anonymous at Thu, 14 Mar 2024 20:03:42 UTC No. 16077627
>>16077572
There are here in Switzerland because it's mandated by law. Enjoy your corporate capitalism, ameribros.
Anonymous at Thu, 14 Mar 2024 20:04:51 UTC No. 16077632
>>16077619
Superpower in two more weeks?
Anonymous at Thu, 14 Mar 2024 20:14:33 UTC No. 16077659
>>16077632
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive
What does that make you? A nothing power?
AIFag !Gy8L8Ggb7w at Thu, 14 Mar 2024 20:23:23 UTC No. 16077682
>>16077545
in the 60s it was like: I'm willing to die for my country. my name will be engraved in history forever. my parents, wife and four children will be proud of me. I will be with god if I die anyway.
now it's like: nobody cares. even if I help them get to Mars first they'll gonna say some tranny or woman or black were first to go there anyway. I'll just take this paycheck and go home.