fwiw, CNN is running a special on the Apollo 11 mission right now (9 pm eastern time)...
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"The Apollo Guidance Computer was a marvel: As Poppy Northcutt, who calculated Apollo’s return-to-Earth trajectories, told me, the AGC had less computing power than the greeting cards today that record a personal message. Yet it worked."
https://slate.com/technology/2019/10/consequential-computer-code-software-history.html
Imagine trusting your ass to a greeting card chip
Actually, that'd be an advantage verses the SSI and discrete components used to build the AGC. A comparative bazillion points of failure...
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So only 2 out of 3 main chutes deployed, but the landing still looked quite "soft".
Launch occurs just over 2 minutes in...
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Pretty cool. I need one of those under the seat on my next flight. They tell you there's a life preserver under every seat on an airplane - I really wonder if any of those have ever been used to save a life. Give me a parachute, thanks.
Alpha Monocerotid meteor outburst Thurs. night/Fri. morning; short (only an hour long), but intense:
https://www.amsmeteors.org/2019/11/alpha-monocerotid-outburst-in-2019/
Regards, GF.
Bummer, cause it's going to be cloudy and rainy here
That's cool.
Have you tried to catch any of the Starlink constellation? Apparently it doesn't take much more than a pair of high-powered binoculars to spot them, but we've been under cloud cover for days on end over here...
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End of an era. I still have a SETI account though tbh it's been years since I would leave my system alive overnight to run it...
https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/05/us/seti-home-hibernation-alien-trnd-scn/index.html
The layered rock formations makes one ponder what Mars was like a few years back...Hi-res Mars pics are so cool!
https://mars.nasa.gov/resources/curiositys-1-8-billion-pixel-panorama/?site=msl
Damn! That's some serious resolution! Thanks for sharingCheck out this "gigapan" pic shot inside the newest US Air Force Museum hangar at Wright-Patterson AFB outside Dayton, Ohio.
There are some cool birds that you can zoom close enough to almost touch.
http://www.gigapan.com/gigapans/194894#share-embed
Go full-screen. It's amazing how much detail is crammed in one pic...
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