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the_ignored
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 Posted - 07/10/2009 : 09:43:19
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To paraphrase what Louis Black sometimes says: Isn't it amazing that we've reached this point?
You can build your own Apollo Guidance Computer now, it seems.
| John Pultorak, is a Lockheed Martin software engineer and at the age of 54, built his own Apollo Guidance system in his basement.It took him four years to build it and he spent about $3, 000 for the hardware. If that wasn#8217;t enough he then wrote a massive 1,000 page long set of documents that includes detailed descriptions and all schematics needed for anyone to build their own unit. |
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>From: enuffenuff@fastmail.fm
(excerpt follows):
> I'm looking to teach these two bastards a lesson they'll never forget.
> Personal visit by mates of mine. No violence, just a wee little chat.
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> **** has also committed more crimes than you can count with his
> incitement of hatred against a religion. That law came in about 2007
> much to ****'s ignorance. That is fact and his writing will become well
> know as well as him becoming a publicly known icon of hatred.
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> Good luck with that fuckwit. And Reynold, fucking run, and don't stop.
> Disappear would be best as it was you who dared to attack me on my
> illness knowing nothing of the cause. You disgust me and you are top of
> the list boy. Again, no violence. Just regular reminders of who's there
> and visits to see you are behaving. Nothing scary in reality. But I'd
> still disappear if I was you.
What brought that on? this. Original posting here.
Another example of this guy's lunacy here. |
Edited by - the_ignored on 07/10/2009 09:43:44
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
14408 Posts |
Posted - 07/10/2009 : 12:03:27 [Permalink]
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That sounds great and if I thought it would work on my tired & battered, old Shovelhead Harley, I'd get started on it right away!
But, it ought to keep some of the electronically obsessed off the streets and out of trouble for a while. 
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude
Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,
and Crypto-Communist! 
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The Rat
SFN Regular
Canada
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 Posted - 07/10/2009 : 15:05:01 [Permalink]
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You can do it initially without a 1,000 page document, and have a lot more fun. Each lunar module had 2 computers more advanced than anything you can buy today. They were capable of multi-tasking while being bombarded with various distractor conditions, they could communicate with each other, they were capable of independent thought and action, and were very energy efficient.
They were human brains. So grab your partner and turn on the charm, in nine months you can have one of those too. But it will cost you a hell of a lot more than $3,000 once you've got it all programmed with enough information to fly to the Moon.  |
Bailey's second law; There is no relationship between the three virtues of intelligence, education, and wisdom.
You fiend! Never have I encountered such corrupt and foul-minded perversity! Have you ever considered a career in the Church? - The Bishop of Bath and Wells, Blackadder II
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
14408 Posts |
Posted - 07/10/2009 : 15:33:52 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by The Rat
You can do it initially without a 1,000 page document, and have a lot more fun. Each lunar module had 2 computers more advanced than anything you can buy today. They were capable of multi-tasking while being bombarded with various distractor conditions, they could communicate with each other, they were capable of independent thought and action, and were very energy efficient.
They were human brains. So grab your partner and turn on the charm, in nine months you can have one of those too. But it will cost you a hell of a lot more than $3,000 once you've got it all programmed with enough information to fly to the Moon.
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude
Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,
and Crypto-Communist!
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Simon
SFN Regular
USA
1992 Posts |
Posted - 07/10/2009 : 15:46:21 [Permalink]
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| Or you can end up producing the next generation of Kent Howind... It's a bit of a hit or miss process, really. |
Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there – on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
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Posted - 07/10/2009 : 17:42:42 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Simon
Or you can end up producing the next generation of Kent Howind... It's a bit of a hit or miss process, really.
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Hey, let's be fair: Ol' Kent was capable of accurately guiding his own landing in Federal prison.
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“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
Here's a link to Moonscape News, and one to its Archive. |
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Build your own Apollo Guidance Computer!?
