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To: Red Badger

Man, talk about getting the greatest bang out of taxpayer dollars - the Voyager program takes the cake!


7 posted on 11/08/2019 9:21:46 AM PST by Psalm 73 ("I will now proceed to entangle the entire area".)
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To: Psalm 73
Man, talk about getting the greatest bang out of taxpayer dollars - the Voyager program takes the cake!

Made even more incredible by the fact that in the 1970s, when the Voyager spacecrafts were designed, constructed and launched, the most powerful supercomputer at NASA (the ILLIAC IV supercomputer) had far less computational power than your average smartphone today.


21 posted on 11/08/2019 9:51:46 AM PST by Bubba_Leroy (The Obamanation has ended!)
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To: Psalm 73
Of course we also managed to land men on the moon using slide rules.

I am old enough to remember how to use them.


25 posted on 11/08/2019 9:56:46 AM PST by Bubba_Leroy (The Obamanation has ended!)
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