Apparently they say they did it with a super computer in 1969 that had less processing power than a watch today. Those old computers that used spools of tape. And now in 2024 we don't have the technology to get "back" to the moon. Work that one out.

[–] lud@lemm.ee 8 points 3 months ago

We can't go back today because we don't have a fucking rocket.

If we had the rocket of course we could go back but we don't. Rebuilding the original rocket is very hard or impossible due to how it was contracted and the fact that many of the suppliers don't exist any more and much of the knowledge is lost.

Of course the actual technology we have is sufficient. Rockets are extremely simple when it comes to computers. Most calculations needed for actual burns could be done on paper or a video game nowadays.

We could of course build a new rocket but that is really expensive and the budgets for these things are far lower nowadays compared to the cold war. Still we are actually planning on going there soon-ish.

[–] Quatlicopatlix@feddit.org 5 points 3 months ago

Well the "super computer" argument is just not good because this wasnt an all purpose computer. This was specially build for this task. There are tons of special purpose chips today that wont be able to do general purpuse computing but crush a beefy pc in special tasks. Video encoding for example or tons of other tasks.