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0 pointsXorNot11y ago0 comments

Except it's an applies-to-oranges comparison to start with. The mathematics of space-travel is very simple - it's just calculus. You need to be accurate, but it's easy to quantify and well controlled.

Which is why you can go to the moon with a decent graphics calculator, but you definitely can't have a self-driving car with much less then a modern supercomputer.

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jared31411y ago

> The mathematics of space-travel is very simple - it's just calculus. You need to be accurate, but it's easy to quantify and well controlled.

We're not talking about calculating our way to the moon. We're talking about going to the moon.

The space program had much more than a graphing calculator. They had buildings full of people, systems, and realtime communication with the craft.

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0 pointsXorNot11y ago0 comments

Which is why you can go to the moon with a decent graphics calculator, but you definitely can't have a self-driving car with much less then a modern supercomputer.

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jared31411y ago

> The mathematics of space-travel is very simple - it's just calculus. You need to be accurate, but it's easy to quantify and well controlled.

We're not talking about calculating our way to the moon. We're talking about going to the moon.

The space program had much more than a graphing calculator. They had buildings full of people, systems, and realtime communication with the craft.

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