Did we really land Men on the Moon?


Or are we hoaxed?
See: http://anotherwasteland.blogspot.com/2007/11/moon-landing-hoax.html

See: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2265515730495966561

Or: http://youtube.com/get_video?video_id=3fOSTfGXVN4&t=OEgsToPDskIeX3HTPEeP8iOvBacTT_UP
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The first words spoken on the moon, by Neil Armstrong, are well known, but what were the last words spoken from the moon?

"America's challenge of today has forged man's destiny of tomorrow." - Commander Eugene Cernan, Apollo 17 Mission, 11 December 1972.
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The problems we are facing with IT technology in 2008, make it more then doubtful to really believe that landing men on the moon was possible in 1969:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_11
That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind!

Yeah, right.
A leap too good to be true.
Dream on!

Just reboot in the middle of the void Ctrl-Alt-Del
Stuck in the middle.

In 1969 I was 13 years old, not even playing with my first computer:
Commodore 64

The Commodore 64 is an 8-bit home computer released by Commodore International in August, 1982, at a price of US$595.

Also known as C64 meaning 64KB of memory and a clumsy tapedrive to persist the BASIC code!

Not even 64KB was free for my Sprites, no, less then 39KB!

I had to save my pocket-money, to buy this machine.

Even this machine had a power dissipation problem, it got really hot!
Like the pentium many many years later.

Which computers did NASA install in the Apollo 11?
Or was it fly by wire ?

No wait, see this:
http://ed-thelen.org/comp-hist/vs-mit-apollo-guidance.html

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Specifications:
Instruction Set: Approximately 20 instructions;
100 noun-verb pairs, data up to triple-precision
Word Length: 16 bits (14 bits + sign + parity)
Memory: ROM (rope core) 36K words; RAM (core) 2K words
Disk: None
I/O: DSKY (two per spacecraft)
Performance: approx. Add time - 20us
Basic machine cycle: 2.048 MHz
Technology: RTL bipolar logic (flat pack)
Size: AGC - 24" x 12.5" x 6" (HWD); DSKY - 8" x 8" x 7" (HWD)
Weight: AGC - 70 lbs; DSKY - 17.5 lbs
Number produced: AGC - 75; DSKY: 138
Cost: Unknown.

Power consumption: Operating: 70W @ 28VDC; Standby 15.0 watts
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This thing looks like a pile of junk!
http://www.quotedb.com/quotes/1381
To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.
Thomas Edison

See: Seeing is believing, well, I do not believe in it ...