Subj : Re: New Pico2
To   : Jan Panteltje
From : Ahem A Rivet's Shot
Date : Sat Aug 24 2024 08:56:12

XPost: sci.electronics.design

On Fri, 23 Aug 2024 10:33:21 GMT
Jan Panteltje <alien@comet.invalid> wrote:

> We went to the moon in the sixties of last century and came back
> with computing power less than a Raspberry.

	Hohmann worked out the details of travel around the solar system
using the computing power in his head and the storage afforded by a pencil
and paper. The computing requirements for space travel are not that large.

> Now astronuts  get stuck on the ISS with billions of dollars and sup[p]er
> computers to do the work.

	High quality engineering is a major requirement of space travel.
NASA in the sixties had an effectively infinite budget and a culture of
careful engineering going back to Edward Murphy of Murphy's law.

	Boeing are busy acquiring a reputation of careless engineering.

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