From Newsgroup: comp.os.linux.misc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8sxUMOiP2M

They actually did a pretty good job of this
for the time. The math/engineering and the
expected challenges.

Sorry, no 'moon monsters' :-(

Looks like they fly a 250' V2 with a
thermal-atomic engine.

--- Synchronet 3.21d-Linux NewsLink 1.2

From Newsgroup: comp.os.linux.misc

c186282 wrote:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8sxUMOiP2M

They actually did a pretty good job of this
for the time. The math/engineering and the
expected challenges.

Sorry, no 'moon monsters'  :-(

had to wait for Wallace and Grommit to get them
--- Synchronet 3.21d-Linux NewsLink 1.2

From Newsgroup: comp.os.linux.misc

On 3/19/26 03:52, Woozy Song wrote:

c186282 wrote:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8sxUMOiP2M

They actually did a pretty good job of this
for the time. The math/engineering and the
expected challenges.

Sorry, no 'moon monsters'  :-(

had to wait for Wallace and Grommit to get them

Heh !

DM was pretty straight-up, and, for the time,
surprisingly tech-accurate.

We WERE able to get to the moon even in '49.
Just a few, mostly political/fiscal barriers.

Note that the thermal-atomic engines WERE
made and tested. Alas the RADIATION aspects
were horrific. No Good - at least if launching
from Earth.

Now as a SECOND stage, beyond earth's atmosphere,
these things are STILL viable.

I note that in the movie the fuel/mass equation
was well represented. This is and has been a biggie
in any space flight.

Oh well, maybe SOMEDAY we'll have "warp drive"
or similar ... but not anytime soon. Meanwhile
it's still Newton's Curse. Not gonna get live
humans beyond, maybe even to, Saturn.

Now 'AI' quasi-humans, yea.

Hey, will they be based on Linux ??? :-)

Oh, prediction, no 'warp drive'. Instead some
realization that in the quantum view anything
can be anywhere ... just have to get a large
object to cohere to the same quantum equation
and then figure out how to POINT it.

Blip -> Blop.

Sorry, no noisy flaming rockets with big fins ....

--- Synchronet 3.21d-Linux NewsLink 1.2

From Newsgroup: comp.os.linux.misc

On Wed, 18 Mar 2026 05:55:10 -0400, c186282 wrote:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8sxUMOiP2M

They actually did a pretty good job of this
for the time. The math/engineering and the
expected challenges.

Sorry, no 'moon monsters' :-(

Looks like they fly a 250' V2 with a
thermal-atomic engine.

Running on Linux?
--
s|b
--- Synchronet 3.21d-Linux NewsLink 1.2

From Newsgroup: comp.os.linux.misc



On 3/19/26 07:14, s|b wrote:

On Wed, 18 Mar 2026 05:55:10 -0400, c186282 wrote:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8sxUMOiP2M

They actually did a pretty good job of this
for the time. The math/engineering and the
expected challenges.

Sorry, no 'moon monsters' :-(

Looks like they fly a 250' V2 with a
thermal-atomic engine.

Running on Linux?

They did it with slide rules in 1949 and the mighty human brain's capacity for interpolation. I was still learning to use slide rules in the 1950s and in Nuclear Power School in 1960s when the I learned about
binary reading lights on instrument reporting on the strength of
radioactive contamination from samples taken from various places.
Many old fashioned instrument shops had to be completely removed
due to radium contamination from repainting dials for submarines.
Destination Moon may have been a good movie but the book was great.

bliss
--- Synchronet 3.21d-Linux NewsLink 1.2

From Newsgroup: comp.os.linux.misc

On 3/19/26 10:14, s|b wrote:

On Wed, 18 Mar 2026 05:55:10 -0400, c186282 wrote:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8sxUMOiP2M

They actually did a pretty good job of this
for the time. The math/engineering and the
expected challenges.

Sorry, no 'moon monsters' :-(

Looks like they fly a 250' V2 with a
thermal-atomic engine.

Running on Linux?

Ah, just one rPi could have replaced
tons of hardware on their moon rocket !

--- Synchronet 3.21d-Linux NewsLink 1.2

From Newsgroup: comp.os.linux.misc

On Thu, 19 Mar 2026 23:46:39 -0400, c186282 wrote:

Running on Linux?

Ah, just one rPi could have replaced
tons of hardware on their moon rocket !

I'm guessing a simple smartphone wouldn't do a bad job either.
--
s|b
--- Synchronet 3.21d-Linux NewsLink 1.2

From Newsgroup: comp.os.linux.misc

On 3/20/26 09:11, s|b wrote:

On Thu, 19 Mar 2026 23:46:39 -0400, c186282 wrote:

Running on Linux?

Ah, just one rPi could have replaced
tons of hardware on their moon rocket !

I'm guessing a simple smartphone wouldn't do a bad job either.

PIs have that nice big row of pins for
running devices, phones don't - so I'll
stick with my suggestion :-)

Of course either is a 'super-computer' in
an Apollo program context .....

The 1949 movie context ... they'd have never
believed such things could ever exist.

--- Synchronet 3.21d-Linux NewsLink 1.2

From Newsgroup: comp.os.linux.misc

On 2026-03-21 04:23, c186282 wrote:

On 3/20/26 09:11, s|b wrote:

On Thu, 19 Mar 2026 23:46:39 -0400, c186282 wrote:

Running on Linux?

    Ah, just one rPi could have replaced
    tons of hardware on their moon rocket !

I'm guessing a simple smartphone wouldn't do a bad job either.

  PIs have that nice big row of pins for
  running devices, phones don't - so I'll
  stick with my suggestion  :-)

I would guess the computers used in the Apollo thing had lots of inputs
from other on board instruments and sensors, and possibly outputs.

  Of course either is a 'super-computer' in
  an Apollo program context .....

  The 1949 movie context ... they'd have never
  believed such things could ever exist.

--
Cheers, Carlos.
ES🇪🇸, EU🇪🇺;
--- Synchronet 3.21d-Linux NewsLink 1.2

From Newsgroup: comp.os.linux.misc

On 3/21/26 15:26, Carlos E.R. wrote:

On 2026-03-21 04:23, c186282 wrote:

On 3/20/26 09:11, s|b wrote:

On Thu, 19 Mar 2026 23:46:39 -0400, c186282 wrote:

Running on Linux?

    Ah, just one rPi could have replaced
    tons of hardware on their moon rocket !

I'm guessing a simple smartphone wouldn't do a bad job either.

   PIs have that nice big row of pins for
   running devices, phones don't - so I'll
   stick with my suggestion  :-)

I would guess the computers used in the Apollo thing had lots of inputs
from other on board instruments and sensors, and possibly outputs.

Check it out. They were HORRIBLE computers.

The lander 'computer' used something called
"rope memory" ... vaguely similar to mag core,
but the cores were hand-wired into strings
by little old ladies. Better tech WAS to be
had by '69 ... but the Apollo craft were
govt specced long before that and rather old
tech fixes were used.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Core_rope_memory

In the late 80s, a Navy buddy took me on a tour
of his attack sub. The sonar room had the highest
computer tech ... some huge box (DEC I think)
with some of those old hard drives where you
could literally remove the platters. In short
it was late 60s/early 70s tech on an 80s machine.

But, as said, the subs were specced-out long
before ... a decade+ behind the curve before
the first one left the dock. The sonar guy
was top-tier, could only say SO much, but
he'd become super-expert at leveraging that
'ancient' tech. Amazing what CAN be done
with 'old stuff' if you're motivated.

   Of course either is a 'super-computer' in
   an Apollo program context .....

   The 1949 movie context ... they'd have never
   believed such things could ever exist.

'49 ... 'computers' were gigantic assemblies of
vac tubes and relays. Not so many had even
heard of the things or had any grasp of what
could be done with them. 'Programming' was
oft done by literally moving plug-wires around.
Clocks were in the kilohertz range. Memory
was measured in bytes. 'RAM' ... think things
like mercury-delay lines, 'hard drives' were
DRUMS.

But, they DID get better.

Something like a Pi-5 ... it would have been
just unbelievable in '49 - SciFi of centuries
beyond.

Hmm ... ever see a 70s movie called "The Forbin
Project" ? Their ultra-computer (apparently that
included some grown brain-tissue) filled up an
entire mountain fortress. Believable at the time.
Would have been masses of discrete transistors
back then. (DID see a mainframe built from those,
still in use, back around '80 - 6x6x6 foot box,
county govt, serial terminals, tty machines, COBOL)

Note things did NOT go well with Forbin's 'AI' ...

--- Synchronet 3.21d-Linux NewsLink 1.2