re: #170 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..

I made the comment to a cow-orker during the pre-entry mission presentation, when they were describing the radar- and visually-guided landing automation, “I guess we’ll find out if a computer is smarter than Neil Armstrong.” Smarter, maybe not… but it did the job just fine.

Actually, NASA, realizing what a resource they had had his mind taped and turned into an AI in their Cray 4 supercomputer at NASA’s Ames Research Center and he’s been in a little black box on every probe since. That’s the real reason we’re at 100% on landing the rovers…

Of course he can’t help when someone else confuses Imperial and metric!

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