Yep, it is kind of disorienting because I never really entertained "conspiracy theories" at all much before. Now everything is back on the table. Before: Moon landing was indesputable fact and you're a moron for even questioning it. Now: Moon Landing? could be faked I fucking guess.
Once upon a time people could do math with a pencil and a piece of paper. And a computer doesn’t have to be able to download an app off the cloud to be useful at its assigned task. It’s a glorified calculator, they had analog computers for the battleship guns back in 1945 during WW2 that kept track of the number of shells fired and powder used per barrel to calculate and adjust for the barrel wear. You HONESTLY think the math for launch velocity and re-entry are so difficult you need an iPhone to do it for us? Sorry but that’s the weakest anti-moon landing argument there is.
As for Skype being shit, it is but a lot can be done with almost unlimited means and preferential treatment. People with a T3 line in the 2000’s could do things people with lesser tech couldn’t. Nasa streaming audio and video data with a tv provider to broadcast it isn’t as hard as trying to get 4 kinds of windows to see each other’s files on the same network.
These would be the same people who type a math problem into google instead of punching it into the calculators on their phone. The average person can’t tell you how their tv works, how a tradesman could possibly get a wall to be square while framing, or how an open differential on their car works. On the other end of the scale we have the people who 3d print their own parts, machine and lathe precision equipment, grow and can their own food and write books on various subjects. Smart people always have and always will make things work.
As for how the computer did it, all I needs to do is be a super fast at looking up a value on a table and plugging it into the waiting equation to give the necessary answer and if really advanced, move the controls to a predetermined angle to achieve desired change. All the calculations would have been done before hand, and double checked because people don’t trust new tech as far as they can throw it, it’s not like the computer needed to be some Star Trek system that monitors everything, comes up with equations to computer on its own via voice command.
In 1998 I was told by an Air Force pilot they were upgrading our CF-18’s computers from a 386 based board to (I believe it’s been over 20 years now) a pentium. If a 33mhz processor can handle real time tracking and radar locking with modern missiles when the system is built to be dedicated to that purpose, is a lower spec processor banging out some space nerds math problem really that hard to believe?
Yep, it is kind of disorienting because I never really entertained "conspiracy theories" at all much before. Now everything is back on the table. Before: Moon landing was indesputable fact and you're a moron for even questioning it. Now: Moon Landing? could be faked I fucking guess.
Once upon a time people could do math with a pencil and a piece of paper. And a computer doesn’t have to be able to download an app off the cloud to be useful at its assigned task. It’s a glorified calculator, they had analog computers for the battleship guns back in 1945 during WW2 that kept track of the number of shells fired and powder used per barrel to calculate and adjust for the barrel wear. You HONESTLY think the math for launch velocity and re-entry are so difficult you need an iPhone to do it for us? Sorry but that’s the weakest anti-moon landing argument there is. As for Skype being shit, it is but a lot can be done with almost unlimited means and preferential treatment. People with a T3 line in the 2000’s could do things people with lesser tech couldn’t. Nasa streaming audio and video data with a tv provider to broadcast it isn’t as hard as trying to get 4 kinds of windows to see each other’s files on the same network.
These would be the same people who type a math problem into google instead of punching it into the calculators on their phone. The average person can’t tell you how their tv works, how a tradesman could possibly get a wall to be square while framing, or how an open differential on their car works. On the other end of the scale we have the people who 3d print their own parts, machine and lathe precision equipment, grow and can their own food and write books on various subjects. Smart people always have and always will make things work.
As for how the computer did it, all I needs to do is be a super fast at looking up a value on a table and plugging it into the waiting equation to give the necessary answer and if really advanced, move the controls to a predetermined angle to achieve desired change. All the calculations would have been done before hand, and double checked because people don’t trust new tech as far as they can throw it, it’s not like the computer needed to be some Star Trek system that monitors everything, comes up with equations to computer on its own via voice command.
In 1998 I was told by an Air Force pilot they were upgrading our CF-18’s computers from a 386 based board to (I believe it’s been over 20 years now) a pentium. If a 33mhz processor can handle real time tracking and radar locking with modern missiles when the system is built to be dedicated to that purpose, is a lower spec processor banging out some space nerds math problem really that hard to believe?