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[–] 16905612? ago 

The bloated GUI software you use today is only possible because of massive processing power enabled by millions upon millions of microminiature transistors called Large Scale Integration semiconductors. Computing isn't new; WWII battleships had the electromechanical analog computer,Mark 37, for their fire control systems. Two years before the Apollo missions made their first landing, Texas Instruments created hand held calculators based on transistors. The circuitry in those calculators is interrupt driven and mimics what is in today's laptops and cell phones. By 1973 LSI innovations enabled calculators that are basically what you see today. As for the moon landings:

The Apollo Command Module and the Lunar Module each had a computer (with different software, but the same design) called the Primary Guidance, Navigation, and Control System (PGNCS, pronounced "pings"). The LM also had a computer which was a part of the Abort Guidance System, to give a backup if the PGNCS failed during the landing.
"Ground systems backed up the CM computer and its associated guidance system so that if the CM system failed, the spacecraft could be guided manually based on data transmitted from the ground," NASA stated. "If contact with the ground were lost, the CM system had autonomous return capability."
Sauce: https://www.space.com/26630-apollo-11-vintage-tech-innovations.html

You think like a child, lacking any understanding - that makes flat earth believable, eh?

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[–] 16906615? [S] ago 

nothing you say allows for men to fly through the thermosphere (2000 degrees) or the Van Allen Radiation Belt or allows for men to operate without air conditioned space suits or for that matter how did the astronauts not "explode" when their pressurized suits were exposed to the "vacuum" of space ....there are 10,000 reasons why men have never left Earths atmosphere, least of which is computing power https://files.catbox.moe/tumkkr.jpg

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[–] 16918969? ago 

"Despite the high temperature, an observer or object will experience cold temperatures in the thermosphere, because the extremely low density of gas (practically a hard vacuum) is insufficient for the molecules to conduct heat. A normal thermometer will read significantly below 0 °C (32 °F), at least at night, because the energy lost by thermal radiation would exceed the energy acquired from the atmospheric gas by direct contact."

Pressurized space suits only have to maintain 32 psi, normal sea level atmospheric pressure in a vacuum. That is not an issue.

I would be more impressed if some one would suggest that the Hubbell telescope be used to view the first Apollo landing site. The Lunar Module should be big enough to pick it out with that scope's capabilities. You originally pooh-poohed a 1960's computer having enough processing power to assist the Apollo landing. You were soooo wrong:

"but it not "retarded" for you to believe that we flew "golf carts" to the moon, with less computing power than the phone in your pocket and somehow they landed vertically on the moon, on their first attempt without computer aid ..."

You are full of crap. And not just regular crap. Ignorant crap. I worked in Grumman Aviation in 1968 (my father and sister also worked there as well as my BIL) and the Lunar Module was being assembled not even 100 yards away from where I worked in Plant #2. I made parts (bulkheads) for it. If the whole Apollo mission was a lie, I want to know about it, I really do. But please don't post ignorant s**t about it.