"Which stops someone just driving over the border to the nearest country which doesn't have such sanctions and filling up their car with equipment... how exactly?"...not much... hence the report that they have said supercomputer. someone made the trip. duh.
Actually to be fair your comparison is quite valid. I only know this cause I looked it up before.
NH went by Jupiter FOR a gravity assist. It IS utilizing an Ion drive. and is now the fastest moving man made object in space.... at 46,975mph.
Jupiter gravity assist
New Horizons received a Jupiter gravity assist with a closest approach at 5:43:40 UTC (12:43:40am EST) on February 28, 2007. It passed through the Jupiter system at 21 km/s (46,975 mph) relative to Jupiter (23 km/s (51,449 mph) relative to the Sun). New Horizons was the first probe launched directly towards Jupiter since the Ulysses probe in 1990.
The flyby increased New Horizons' speed away from the Sun by nearly 4 km/s (8,947 mph), putting the spacecraft on a faster trajectory to Pluto, about 2.5 degrees out of the plane of the Earth's orbit (the "ecliptic").
as for Voyager 2..... well the data USED to be in wikipedia, but its missing right now, what it does say is that its going slower than Voyager 1 which is traveling at 38,400mph. making it 8,000mph slower that New Horizons.....
As of November 2005, the spacecraft was traveling at a speed of 17.2 kilometers per second relative to the sun (3.6 AU per year or 38,400 miles per hour), 10% faster than Voyager 2. Accurate information concerning its location can be found in this NASA paper with heliocentric coordinates extrapolated up to 2015 of both probes.
You are forgetting about the major increase of light pollution in modern life. Up until electric power, it was pretty dark out at night. just looking at a clear sky with no moon was enough to create awe in the eyes of superstitious. and those comets that look faint in our skies today had tails that span the horizon.
unless we have a moon sized comet heading REALLY close to us. I doubt you'll get the war ending awe that was common back in the day. they are just not going to be as impressive in our polluted skies.
But don't stop dreaming on my account.
"So far, no company has been able to write a turn-based strategy game where the AI comes even close to being a challenge for a good player."
Last I checked Chess was still turn based, so IBM may have something to say on that. Not that they wrote chess. Or that this disproves your argument... why am I replying?
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"Which stops someone just driving over the border to the nearest country which doesn't have such sanctions and filling up their car with equipment... how exactly?" ...not much... hence the report that they have said supercomputer. someone made the trip. duh.
NH went by Jupiter FOR a gravity assist. It IS utilizing an Ion drive. and is now the fastest moving man made object in space.... at 46,975mph.
Jupiter gravity assistNew Horizons received a Jupiter gravity assist with a closest approach at 5:43:40 UTC (12:43:40am EST) on February 28, 2007. It passed through the Jupiter system at 21 km/s (46,975 mph) relative to Jupiter (23 km/s (51,449 mph) relative to the Sun). New Horizons was the first probe launched directly towards Jupiter since the Ulysses probe in 1990.
The flyby increased New Horizons' speed away from the Sun by nearly 4 km/s (8,947 mph), putting the spacecraft on a faster trajectory to Pluto, about 2.5 degrees out of the plane of the Earth's orbit (the "ecliptic").
as for Voyager 2..... well the data USED to be in wikipedia, but its missing right now, what it does say is that its going slower than Voyager 1 which is traveling at 38,400mph. making it 8,000mph slower that New Horizons.....
As of November 2005, the spacecraft was traveling at a speed of 17.2 kilometers per second relative to the sun (3.6 AU per year or 38,400 miles per hour), 10% faster than Voyager 2. Accurate information concerning its location can be found in this NASA paper with heliocentric coordinates extrapolated up to 2015 of both probes.do some research before selling yourself short ;P
You are forgetting about the major increase of light pollution in modern life. Up until electric power, it was pretty dark out at night. just looking at a clear sky with no moon was enough to create awe in the eyes of superstitious. and those comets that look faint in our skies today had tails that span the horizon. unless we have a moon sized comet heading REALLY close to us. I doubt you'll get the war ending awe that was common back in the day. they are just not going to be as impressive in our polluted skies. But don't stop dreaming on my account.
"So far, no company has been able to write a turn-based strategy game where the AI comes even close to being a challenge for a good player." Last I checked Chess was still turn based, so IBM may have something to say on that. Not that they wrote chess. Or that this disproves your argument... why am I replying?