Reading the site about the Deep Space Network, a link on de Voyager site, they should be able to keep up with it for quite a while longer.
This thing really boggles my mind. I still remember my dad showing me the pictures and the map of the universe in National Geographic. This thing was huge in the 70s and still boggles the mind. Space exploration needs to become exploration again, millions reading papers and watching the tv because of something we are doing in space.
I still have a ti99/4 running at home. A prototype from TI my dad brought home when he was still working at TI. If memory serves me correctly vintage year 1980. Voice synthesyser, RS232 port, 2(!) floppy drives, 5.25, and the of course, the 32 column thermo printer. Too bad it is nearly impossible to get paper for that baby.
I am still playing an occasional match of indoor soccer.
Reading this thread made me think back to the conversation I had with my dad trying to get him to buy me a HP48SX. As a poor college student I did not quite have the funds available.
He was bashing me about yeah and next year you will want some other calculator because...
Eventually I got the calculator and it hauled me through engineering college, saving my hide on matrix calculations and interpolations....
I am happy to see that even after 12 years there is no calculator out there to equal it. My dad wil be proud:)
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The Earth's Delay has been absorbed by the Dutch Railroad. Since 1999 they have been delayed more and more. It is the law of constant delay.
It has direct relevance with Moore's law. Trains are never delayed when the connecting bus has a delay.
Reading the site about the Deep Space Network, a link on de Voyager site, they should be able to keep up with it for quite a while longer.
This thing really boggles my mind. I still remember my dad showing me the pictures and the map of the universe in National Geographic. This thing was huge in the 70s and still boggles the mind. Space exploration needs to become exploration again, millions reading papers and watching the tv because of something we are doing in space.
Talk about history flashing before your eyes.... Help my last moment has come. Oh duh, it is just a website.
I still have a ti99/4 running at home. A prototype from TI my dad brought home when he was still working at TI. If memory serves me correctly vintage year 1980. Voice synthesyser, RS232 port, 2(!) floppy drives, 5.25, and the of course, the 32 column thermo printer. Too bad it is nearly impossible to get paper for that baby. I am still playing an occasional match of indoor soccer.
Didn't Sir Winston Churchill say:
"The only statistics I believe are those I falsified myself"
Shit, that was the cause of the power surge we just experienced...
Reading this thread made me think back to the conversation I had with my dad trying to get him to buy me a HP48SX. As a poor college student I did not quite have the funds available.
:)
He was bashing me about yeah and next year you will want some other calculator because...
Eventually I got the calculator and it hauled me through engineering college, saving my hide on matrix calculations and interpolations....
I am happy to see that even after 12 years there is no calculator out there to equal it. My dad wil be proud