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It's amazing to think about how far our civilization has advanced in 40 years, going from giant government projects to calculate the orbital path for a single E
by labster 9y ago
It's amazing to think about how far our civilization has advanced in 40 years, going from giant government projects to calculate the orbital path for a single Earth-Moon trip to having a single researcher casually calculate the gravitational interactions of 417 bodies to discover a stable configuration.
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- adrianN 9y agoCalculating the orbital path was not the hard part of the Earth-Moon trip.
- TuringTest 9y agoMaybe, but simulating it fast enough to make corrections on-the-fly was not trivial.