That&#39;s very very powerful for a space fairing computer that gets severely punished by varying temperature changes, radiation and all other mambo jambo that solid state electronics don&#39;t like.<div><br></div><div><font><font><div>

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<div><i><font face="courier new, monospace"><b><span style="text-align:left;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font color="#666666">not in the code it&#39;s made of.</font></span> </b></font></i><font color="#333333" face="courier new, monospace"><b><i><br>

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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2012/8/9 Peter Karunyu <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:pkarunyu@gmail.com" target="_blank">pkarunyu@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">

Yeah, that would be totally awesome. And get this, the main computer on Curiosity is only <a href="http://www.smh.com.au/technology/sci-tech/on-mars--the-power-of-curiosity-is--less-than-half-a-smartphone-20120809-23wby.html" target="_blank">200 megahertz</a>!<div>

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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 4:45 AM, James Nzomo <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:kazikubwa@gmail.com" target="_blank">kazikubwa@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">


@Karunyu<div>If the U.S. Govt. gave N.A.S.A their Military budget, by now there would&#39;av been a permanent human presence on the Moon, Mars and (at least I believe ) subsurface/underwater base on Europa with terra-forming already in progress on both Mars and Venus!</div>




<div><br></div><div>The kind of roving/probing being done on the desolate red dot would&#39;av been focused on extra solar rocks.</div><div><br></div><div>But the reality is ...the above mad scientist&#39;s dream was crushed when they kaput&#39;ed Apollo 18+ and &quot;N1-L3&quot; programmes.</div>




<div><br></div><div>The consequence is, if this blue rock gets kaput&#39;ed by a large-ass asteroid/solar flare ........................... ....................<div><br clear="all"><font><font><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="border-collapse:collapse"><span style="font-size:13px"><br>




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<div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="border-collapse:collapse"><span style="font-size:13px"><br></span></span></font></div></font></font><div><i><font face="courier new, monospace" color="#666666"><span style="text-align:left"><b>The value of a prototype is in the education it gives you, </b></span></font></i></div>




<div><i><font face="courier new, monospace"><b><span style="text-align:left"><font color="#666666">not in the code it&#39;s made of.</font></span> </b></font></i><font color="#333333" face="courier new, monospace"><b><i><br>




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<br><br></div><div><div><div class="gmail_quote">2012/8/8 Mark Mwangi <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:mwangy@gmail.com" target="_blank">mwangy@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">




True thats why I said it deserves a DVD not a Theater<br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div>On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 9:50 AM, kris njoroge <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:krsnjo@gmail.com" target="_blank">krsnjo@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>






</div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div><div class="gmail_quote"><div>That&#39;s really awesome </div></div><span><font color="#888888">-- <br>





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<span style="font-family:arial;font-weight:normal;white-space:normal"><span style="font-family:&#39;Trebuchet MS&#39;">If the human brain were so simple that we could understand it, we would be so simple that we couldn&#39;t. - </span><span style="font-family:&#39;Trebuchet MS&#39;">Emerson M. Pugh</span></span></pre>







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