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> "computers" less powerful than an ordinary standard wristwatch of today: going to the moon, surviving there and coming back This is more of a statement of ho
by Erlich_Bachman 7y ago
> "computers" less powerful than an ordinary standard wristwatch of today: going to the moon, surviving there and coming back
This is more of a statement of how little computing power is needed for rudimentary space travel. The technology itself was quite advanced, just in other aspects than raw computing power.
- mschuster91 7y agoSure but the US has lost so much abilities and especially knowledge. Most people active in the Moon-landing era are pensioners by now and there are at lwast two generations who have to start from scratch now instead of having decades of iterative tech improvements.