• GuybrushThreepwo0d@programming.dev
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    1 year ago

    Well… You need like what, 3 floats for position and 4 more for orientation. Multiply that by 3 to get velocity and acceleration values. Then I don’t know a few more floats per sensor and you have your whole state space in a few bytes.

    Meanwhile a single image is like a megabyte so yeah.

    Source: it’s past midnight and I should have gone to sleep ages ago

    • Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      1 year ago

      And don’t forget about redundancies

      The programming for the Apollo program was hand woven so comparing it to modern systems is kinda like comparing apples to oranges

      Honestly the computers for the Apollo program were amazing and I highly recommend looking into the whole thing more, it’s so incredibly cool