They had really smart people, but not so much in the way of technology (so they had to be smarter with what they did have). Also, space is not that high tech.
From a purely physics perspective, going to the moon and landing is not that difficult. Even someone with only high school level of physics can calculate for themselves what is involved. Calculate the dv (the only calculus needed)n necessary for each leg of the trip, from that work out the approximate mass of the vehicles. You have to start with the minimum required vehicle on the moon and work backwards. It's a few hour long project if you have a high school level of understanding.
From there it is an iterative and refining process. Navigation and control are (and were) well understood problems. Neither requires much computing power. I've done the math before (and have books on it) and it is at most a few pages of equations with a lot of trigonometry. ICBMs by this time were already using such systems. There is nothing involved landing on the moon that is not also directly used for dropping a warhead withing a 20m radius on the other side of the Earth. The math is identical, only the constants are different.
I've never even remotely had a problem with that. All my local backwater hardware stores sell them. And then there's always mcmaster, grainger and amazon. Worse comes to worse, they're trivial to make on my lathe.
I use a twenty year old washing machine. It works perfectly and I expect it to last another twenty years at least. My grandmother used a washing machine from the 1920's, and while a little inconvenient, also worked fine. Washing clothes has been around since clothes and nothing more needs to be done. Humanity solved that problem millennia ago.
Yeah, I miss those days. It got really nasty about 8-9 years ago imo. Sigh. There was real "nerd news" back then too. I was reading some old (30 year) computer magazines the other day. A similar had a similar fate. Maybe the medium exhausted its run and there was nothing left to say.
That was by design. By Ep4, things have been collapsing for quite a while. Ep1, there is still a lot of economic activity and things are still new, people can afford to maintain things.
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I've never used any c++ specific constructs in any of my arduino programs.
What if you need to talk to hardware (as system engineers typically do)?
If you understand how processors work, pointers are very easy.
More commonly known as moonlighting. There was a tv series in then 1980's with Bruce Willis.
I've been doing this since high school. Many friends also, sometimes replacing their day job. Nothing new.
They had really smart people, but not so much in the way of technology (so they had to be smarter with what they did have). Also, space is not that high tech.
Too bad they had to wait for then capitalists to develop computers to make it work.
Business is all about models. I would venture finance also. I also know firsthand that linear programming is heavily integrated.
The is more gold than bitcoin.
I want the universe. And I want me to be the only sentient being in it. And I will not stop until I reach this goal.
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From there it is an iterative and refining process. Navigation and control are (and were) well understood problems. Neither requires much computing power. I've done the math before (and have books on it) and it is at most a few pages of equations with a lot of trigonometry. ICBMs by this time were already using such systems. There is nothing involved landing on the moon that is not also directly used for dropping a warhead withing a 20m radius on the other side of the Earth. The math is identical, only the constants are different.
The moon landing hoax thing was started by Hollywood.
And this is how history becomes legend and legend become myth until one day an advanced species of cockroach travels to the moon and gets confused.
Public Discourse in the age of show business, how could you expect a different result. Brave new world, here we come.
I know that it's nowhere\
But there is no denying that
No, just a simpleton.
The JD corporation or the farmer corporation? They're all corporations.
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I've never even remotely had a problem with that. All my local backwater hardware stores sell them. And then there's always mcmaster, grainger and amazon. Worse comes to worse, they're trivial to make on my lathe.
I use a twenty year old washing machine. It works perfectly and I expect it to last another twenty years at least. My grandmother used a washing machine from the 1920's, and while a little inconvenient, also worked fine. Washing clothes has been around since clothes and nothing more needs to be done. Humanity solved that problem millennia ago.
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Yeah, I miss those days. It got really nasty about 8-9 years ago imo. Sigh. There was real "nerd news" back then too. I was reading some old (30 year) computer magazines the other day. A similar had a similar fate. Maybe the medium exhausted its run and there was nothing left to say.
That was by design. By Ep4, things have been collapsing for quite a while. Ep1, there is still a lot of economic activity and things are still new, people can afford to maintain things.
Did you work on Contact? The medicine cabinet was my favorite FX in the whole movie.