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OBJECTION!
I own a Motorola DynaTAC 8000X.
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Considering the AGC predates all cell phones, PCs and _microprocessors_in_general_, it’s not surprising that even the simplest cell phones have more computing power. A modern cell phone could emulate this thing a hundred times over.
Yeah, but I first remember hearing this tidbit of information when I had one of those phones notorious for Centipede, so its much less suprising to hear for the first time years later.
+100
*still true*
Actually the meme is wrong. The computer was less powerful than a four-function calculator.
So just imagine what we could accomplish by comparison if we ever decided to further our exploration of space!
not much more… chemical rockets haven’t advanced nearly as much as computers.
So it would only be easier for the pilots?
they got there by rocket fuel, not anything affected by moores law
Holy shrimp! Why are waiting to go to the moon again, when we could just do it with an iPhone? Science is fun..
No you can’t go to the moon with an iPhone.*Anti Joke Chicken*
Problem iPhone users?
So, there’s no app for that?
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‘Merica! W00t!
Because they totally rode the computer to the moon, amirite?
I understand the “wow” behind saying something like this, but it kinda downplays, you know, everything else that went into the Apollo program when you just point out the computer. One part of many.
They’re also a little better at space than us. And a bigger budget
Several people still own and use computer’s slower than an iPhone. (New iPhone’s are around 1 ghz, several Windows XP computers cannot even achieve 1 ghz.)
Back then 1 mhz was a fking lot, maybe i can be compared to today prossesors will be like 4Ghz
I have an old XP PC (it was originally ME, though) that runs at 750MHz. I even have an old DOS/Win3.1 PC @33MHz.
I still have an apple IIe in the attic. Floppies and all.
it’s not about iphones… your calculator could be more powerful than the computer-parts used to get to the moon…
so my TI-84 will take me to mars?
No, but you can always play Block Dude.
Not by itself, obviously (not enough fuel capacity), but it’d be more than enough computing power for navigation and such.
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*wristwatch.
i don’t need a computer to find the burbank-studios
Actually, they got there with a computer less powerfull then a 1st Gen GameBoy.
In actuality, its true. 2k of RAM and 32K of space… That sent men to the moon. Yet we have computers nowadays with 8 RAM slots that can hold up to 4GB a slot… harddrives past terabytes… and so much more. Imagine the possibilities.
Even the sim card of a phone has more space than that
It doesn’t matter because as powerful as you cellphone could be, it’s crippled by companies that only want to nickle and dime you dry. So your powerful phone won’t be able to take you to the moon becuse whether it’s Apple, Google, Microsoft, RIM, AT&T, Verizon, etc. they are all set to make sure you can’t tap into the true full potential of your powerful handheld computer.
Yes you can. Don’t you think company X wants to sell a phone that’s more powerful than the one from company Y? It’s just that the average phone user doesn’t really have anything worthwhile to spend 2 Bn calculations on other than showing shiny animations.
Actuallllllyyyyy the Apollo computer was over 2mhz so this is invalid.
noting that my phone is a 2000 flip xD
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haha you guys still think Americans landed on the moon.
I am Australian and I believe it. I have no reason to believe otherwise. I am an Atheist because I have plenty of reasons to disbelieve other religions.
doing the math wasn’t the hard part. Getting tons of metal that high into space was.
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and we haven’t come back nor being able to go any further
No, but having an actual solid rocket booster is kind of a requirement for getting to the moon. Several of them, in fact. And a mother of a big liquid rocket too. Several of them, in fact.