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  • Rosetta is it real ? Technology out of date…
  • bikebouy
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    Dunno about you lot but I’m quite excited about the output data from it.
    Pretty neat thing to do, land a probe on a fast moving object.

    Where do we go to find out this kinda thing?

    wwaswas
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    The NASA website’s a pretty good resource.

    andytherocketeer
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    Doesn’t all this stuff rely on even older IT – whatever was leading edge /reliable when they started development?

    kinda, but we had 64bit IT kit way back well over a decade ago. almost 2 decades in fact.
    and the reliable kit tends not to include M$ or Apple 😉

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    MSP
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    and the reliable kit tends not to include M$ or Apple

    Hahahahahahahahahaha, edit: actually I should be careful what I say on public forums.

    maxtorque
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    For people who like pictures of old tech, when it was beautiful to look at, some of these pics are worth a look:

    old electronics

    They don’t make em like that^^ any more!

    gwaelod
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    data can travel at the speed of light

    an obvious solution to interstellar travel will be to download youreself out of your current body, and then beam yourself across the galaxy using radio waves and then upload yourself into a 3d printed organic avatar of your own body at the other end. The code for your body will be in the metadata appended to the digital representation of your body, and it will be what is needed for the 3d printer.

    Back on earth your now “empty” body will be maintained in a sort of boarding kennel for souless, empty bodies…it’ll be like Abercrombie&Fitch.

    Duffer
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    [clarification]

    It was a joke.

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    Damn, outmaneuvered again! 😉

    ononeorange
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    Regardless of the above, surely if it’s been in standby mode for the last few years then it will require endless reboots followed by “not responding” messages with the little circle going round in a grumpy huff?

    GrahamS
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    an obvious solution to interstellar travel will be to download youreself out of your current body

    You’d like this book:


    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altered_Carbon

    monkeyfudger
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    I love the assumption that an interstellar probe will be made of the same shit they sell you in argos.

    I mean, do you honestly think NASA just popped out to Dixons to pick up a couple of laptops and grabbed a solar panel from B&Q on the way back?

    Na, surely they’d go to Maplins?

    woody2000
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    Awesome 😀

    AlexSimon
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    maxtorque – they do in the world of Hi-Fi:

    andytherocketeer
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    nice.
    decals are stuck on upside down though 😉

    i’d have had some nice valves on show.

    neilthewheel
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    So if it is travelling at the speed of light, and you turn on the headlights, what happens?”
    This is the kind of question Einstein used to ask himself. He concluded that the light from the headlights would appear to travel away at the speed of light relative to the motion of the spacecraft, for an observer travelling on the space ship.
    the speed of light is constant, regardless of the speed of the observer.

    neilthewheel
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    Ps the space ship could not actually reach the speed of light for reasons already mentioned.

    andytherocketeer
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    there was another thread the other day for einsteinian physics and light mach.
    the big bang was caused by the the collective brains of the previous universe exploding after trying to understand that stuff.

    mrmonkfinger
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    They don’t make em like that^^ any more!

    There’s a whole bunch of stuff that looks exactly like that being made a few feet from where I’m sitting, destined to be buried deep inside a passenger jet of some kind.

    in the world of Hi-Fi

    Ah, the world of hi-fi… where physics doesn’t apply.

    maxtorque
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    mrmonkfinger
    There’s a whole bunch of stuff that looks exactly like that being made a few feet from where I’m sitting, destined to be buried deep inside a passenger jet of some kind

    I hope with less actual wires though! (multilayer pcbs + high speed serial buses) 😉

    verses
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    Regardless of the above, surely if it’s been in standby mode for the last few years then it will require endless reboots followed by “not responding” messages with the little circle going round in a grumpy huff?

    “2 years worth of updates are available”

    Northwind
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    Some of this kit is crazy, there’s an apollo capsule in the science museum in London and it looks like it was made in a smithy. I don’t know how true it is but one of the cliches is that the computers used for the moon shots were less powerful than a typical mobile phone is today.

    Why doesn’t living in the future feel better?

    wwaswas
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    Here’s the program that got a spacecraft to the moon

    andytherocketeer
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    your very first mobile phone would have had a capability way in excess of Apollo mission computers, by a very very long way.
    of the top of my head they’d be about 2kb of RAM and abotu 1 or 2 MHz. So you’re talking ZX81 or Vic 20 with graphics and BASIC removed.

    CountZero
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    Back on earth your now “empty” body will be maintained in a sort of boarding kennel for souless, empty bodies…it’ll be like Abercrombie&Fitch.

    Bwahahahahahahahahahahaha! Thank you, genuine LOL moment there. 😆

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