I just got back from an extended vacation to Washington DC. The family and I were treated to numerous tours and outings thanks to my brother and his wife who are experts on the area. It was pretty fab, and we saw all the big monuments - Lincoln Memorial, Vietnam Wall, Koren War Memorial (see the photo - creepy at night), World War II Memorial, Iwo Jima statue, etc etc etc.
We also hit a lot of the killer Museums like the Smithsonian, Museum of Natural History and of course the Air and Space Museum.Which brings me to this long overdue posting. Dig the crazy sci-fi B movie prop in the photo. Oh no, wait - that was an actual console used by NASA to get Americans into outer space. Can you believe it? What a piece of crap! Those astronauts had major cohenes for more than one reason...
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I seem to remember hearing something somewhere about the entire computing power of the lunar landing module (LLM) is equivalent to a modern day pocket calculator (and maybe even less). I am no computer expert, but I think the big interface with computers back then was punch cards. How far we have come...
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