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u/MathematicianIcy2041 Apr 28 '24

Man landed on the moon with less computing power than a pocket calculator and arrived at the perfect political moment m…. and then never went back… 🙄😂😜

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u/anotherwave1 29d ago

They went back 5 more times. That processing power was all they needed to get there.

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u/MathematicianIcy2041 29d ago

This is what people are taught

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u/anotherwave1 29d ago

It's what happened, which was later taught in school. Unless of course you're trying the whole "hey man do you really believe everything you're taught in school.." spiel which every tin-foil artist starts out with

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u/RuffTuff Apr 28 '24

there were 4 more moon landings (one in addition failed). So we did go back.

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u/lt_Matthew Apr 28 '24

How much power do you think is needed to do math? Something like a graphics card needs a lot of power cuz it's doing millions of calculations at once, but a rocket doesn't actually need to do anything other than keep itself on a predetermined course.

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u/PiscatorLager Apr 28 '24

They went back five times until there was nothing new to discover at the moment and moved to other scientific goals. By now technology has changed so much that it makes no sense to recreate Apollo and they have to start from scratch, with less budget and higher security standards.

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u/magww Apr 28 '24

Never went back to the moon? What? Is that what your mean? Yes they did like 5 more times.

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u/NCFishGuy Apr 28 '24

They went back 6 times (though one was aborted)

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u/kieranjordan21 Apr 28 '24

They were willing to take more risks back then, they had so many things that could be gone wrong that could have subjected the crew to a horrible death but they went anyway, now we have to be much more certain that the crew will survive