aircooled said:The guidance computer was "coded" using rope memory, which created binary code (1's and 0's) or machine language code by wrapping the individual wires in and out of magnetic loops. Imagine debugging that!
Computer from NASA’s Apollo program reprogrammed to mine bitcoin
"The computer is so slow that it would take about a billion times the age of the universe to successfully mine a bitcoin block,"
51% of the total thrust of an SR-71, the fastest (known) airplane at Mach 3.2+ is produced, not from its J-58 engines, but the intakes.
Perspective:
The Aztec empire was conquered by the Spanish and pretty much erased from existence 500 years ago (~1521). - The Oxford university started teaching 900years ago (1096).
There is a longer time span between the construction of the pyramids (~2560BC) and the rule of Cleopatra (30BC), than between her death and today.
And my favorite: 1977, the same year Elvis died and the first star wars movie came out, France performed the last execution... by guillotine.
In reply to Torkel :
I love the guillotine one. I use it from time to time.
Appleseed said:51% of the total thrust of an SR-71, the fastest (known) airplane at Mach 3.2+ is produced, not from its J-58 engines, but the intakes.
I saw two, yes two, sr71 this past week. Mind blown with all the facts.
In reply to chandler :
Scram jet?
My mind blown factoid: Elmo has fur. Elmo is a mammal.
Bruce Willis was dead the whole time . . .
Watching August 29, 1997 come and go without Judgment Day was pretty cool.
kazoospec said:Bruce Willis was dead the whole time . . .
Die Hard makes so much more sense now!
RevRico said:kazoospec said:Bruce Willis was dead the whole time . . .
Die Hard makes so much more sense now!
Maybe he wasn’t just dead, but perhaps he was an angel and that is additional proof the Diehard is a Christmas movie.
The time from the Viet Nam war until Forrest Gump movie is less than Fortest Gump movie till today.
T.J. said:The time from the Viet Nam war until Forrest Gump movie is less than Fortest Gump movie till today.
I swear I saw that before.
When you receive a greeting card that plays a song when you open it, you are holding more computing power than that has been to the moon.
Appleseed said:Remember Cameron Fry and Ferris Beuller's relationship seemingly revolving around Ferris trying to get Cameron out of his shell? Cameron arguing with himself how Ferris, "Will keep calling,He'll keep calling..." how Ferris says Cameron's dad hates him, how Cameron says he'll finally stand up to his old man and take the heat?
What if Ferris is Cameron's imaginary friend?
Ferris Bueller, you're my hero.
Ever watch Terminator 2? Pay attention to the driving forces in the movie. In the first act, it's all basic sci-fi action movie stuff, and sort of a rehash of the opening of the original movie. (Notice that the T-800 never kills anyone, even before John orders him not to.) Cyborgs chasing and fighting each other, cat and mouse. Then, we see Sarah Connor being forced to chug down some zombie juice. Miraculously, within a couple hours, she is 100% on the ball and ready to kick ass, just in time for the big breakout scene. And from that point on, the whole movie flows from Sarah's desires. She wants to go see Enrique, they go. She wants to kill Dyson, she goes, they follow. She wants to blow up the Cyberdyne building, everyone including the guy whose life revolves around Cyberdyne goes and does it.
Sarah never left Pescadero. The whole movie is in her mind, her fantasy.
In reply to Knurled. :
Total recall is the same way. Quaid is a dead end construction worker with a smoking hot wife, but hes bored. He goes into the recall place- that has a documented history of failure. He then decides he wants a full spy setup complete with three tittied women. Conveniently, the machine breaks AS hes going to get his memories, it triggers some unknown past that hes been inserted into as said spy- co workers are evil, sharon stone is an assassin, and he needs to start the reactor. Quaid never left the chair. Or did he?
T.J. said:RevRico said:kazoospec said:Bruce Willis was dead the whole time . . .
Die Hard makes so much more sense now!
Maybe he wasn’t just dead, but perhaps he was an angel and that is additional proof the Diehard is a Christmas movie.
And then Bob newhart woke up.
You movie people think way too much.
In reply to Mndsm :
I bought Total Recall just so I could re-watch it from that perspective. But I never actually got around to it.
"Blue sky on Mars?"
The thing is, the beginning of the movie was the insertion. Dead-end construction worker has a house that awesome? He really is the spy, the construction worker life was the inserted memory...
Streetwiseguy said:You movie people think way too much.
Afer John Steinbeck wrote "The Grapes of Wrath", he wrote a letter to someone mentioning that he'd put at least seven layers of meaning into it, and he was a little depressed that most people who read the book wouldn't get them.
Great movies are great because they are good on the surface AND they are compelling for the old head-muscle. Like how, to grab a movie at random, Aliens was an allegory of the US's involvement in Vietnam. This sort of thing isn't accidental, it's baked-in by the writers and directors.
From our recent vacation. Every turn while aboard this ship led to my mind being blown. Impressive for ww2 era and still impressive.
Datsun310Guy said:
From page 625 of the Minor Rant thread:
dculberson said:EvanR wrote: This shouldn't bother me as much as it does... For some reason it really grinds my gears when people use the phrase "hot water heater". It's simply a "water heater", fer chrissakes! Why in the name of all that is holy would you want to heat water that is already hot??I think the same way, but then reading your post made me reconsider ... most of the time the thing is sitting with a tank full of hot water and just firing every now and then to keep it at a certain temp. So, in a way, it is a "hot water heater." Very rarely is it heating cold water.
The movie Gone with the Wind portrays the sacking of Atlanta during the Civil war. The making of Gone with the Wind was closer in time to the event it portrays than we are to the movie itself
Time from the end of WWII to Monty Python's Funniest Joke in the World sketch: 24 years.
Time since the sketch: 50 years this October.
We drive on parkways and park on driveways.
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