L. Marcus Posted December 9, 2014 Report Share Posted December 9, 2014 I can see the choo-choo! tkdguy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Enforcer84 Posted December 9, 2014 Report Share Posted December 9, 2014 Wow, your hotel room is really high up there. And thus my secret identity is given away...I mean, yes. Yes it was. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted December 10, 2014 Report Share Posted December 10, 2014 What would cities look like if they were lit only by starlight? LINK death tribble and Cancer 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cygnia Posted December 10, 2014 Report Share Posted December 10, 2014 One drawback of city living -- I miss seeing the stars in the sky. Logan D. Hurricanes and Cancer 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted December 10, 2014 Report Share Posted December 10, 2014 I'd stay out to look at the stars more often, if those pesky raccoons stayed away from my back yard. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cygnia Posted December 10, 2014 Report Share Posted December 10, 2014 Cancer, tkdguy and death tribble 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted December 10, 2014 Report Share Posted December 10, 2014 I've wanted to try that for a long time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted December 10, 2014 Report Share Posted December 10, 2014 Chasing someone in a microlight ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted December 10, 2014 Report Share Posted December 10, 2014 No, he means take a picture of a microlight. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted December 11, 2014 Report Share Posted December 11, 2014 I think it'd be fun to lead the entire population of a species on its annual migration. tkdguy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted December 11, 2014 Report Share Posted December 11, 2014 We wouldn't want them to get lost. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted December 11, 2014 Report Share Posted December 11, 2014 Your marbles? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted December 11, 2014 Report Share Posted December 11, 2014 The migrating birds. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted December 11, 2014 Report Share Posted December 11, 2014 I think it'd be fun to lead the entire population of a species on its annual migration. Lead on! death tribble 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cygnia Posted December 11, 2014 Report Share Posted December 11, 2014 Punt those lemmings! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
megaplayboy Posted December 11, 2014 Report Share Posted December 11, 2014 That film is the lemming equivalent of "Birth of a Nation". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cygnia Posted December 11, 2014 Report Share Posted December 11, 2014 death tribble 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Enforcer84 Posted December 11, 2014 Report Share Posted December 11, 2014 This young lady (31 at the time of this photo in 1969) is Margaret Hamilton, standing beside her code. She was the lead software engineer for Project: Apollo. Lawnmower Boy, bigbywolfe, L. Marcus and 2 others 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Logan D. Hurricanes Posted December 12, 2014 Report Share Posted December 12, 2014 A girl? Lawnmower Boy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted December 12, 2014 Report Share Posted December 12, 2014 Yeah, software engineering used to be really popular with the X-chromosome types before the culture somehow morphed into brogramming, starting in the eighties. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zeropoint Posted December 12, 2014 Report Share Posted December 12, 2014 Software engineering was STARTED by a girl. Lady Ada Lovelace, the first programmer. Respect. Pariah 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted December 12, 2014 Report Share Posted December 12, 2014 Yeah, software engineering used to be really popular with the X-chromosome types before the culture somehow morphed into brogramming, starting in the eighties. Guess there were some when I took my FORTRAN class in 1976; that was a general engineering techniques course, not a computer science course. No, what's daunting about all that listing she's got is that at best it's FORTRAN 4. Probably a hell of a lot of assembly in there too. A huge amount of assembly. And not to be overlooked here: there was the code that brought back Apollo 13. When the Service Module blew out, you didn't know the magnitude or direction of the impulse imparted by the explosion, so you no longer knew what trajectory the spacecraft had. They had to track the spacecraft and solve for the new orbit. And only after that, they had to compute the burns needed to bring the crippled spacecraft back. And you had to do that by experiment, making guesses at what to do and see the predicted trajectory. The three-body orbital mechanics problem does not have an algebraic solution; it can only be solved numerically. I read in a source I trusted, but I have never been able to verify, that to solve all the orbital mechanics equations in the terribly limited amount of available time, NASA got the use of a quarter of the computing capacity of North America. Nowadays, the computing requirements don't bear mentioning. At the time, it was heroic ... no, superheroic. bigbywolfe 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Logan D. Hurricanes Posted December 12, 2014 Report Share Posted December 12, 2014 For the record, I was trying to be funny. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted December 12, 2014 Report Share Posted December 12, 2014 Some of us remember those times and know too much. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted December 12, 2014 Report Share Posted December 12, 2014 Then why haven't you been eliminated yet? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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