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 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] Zellith@kbin.social 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

YOURE COOL

[–] WoahWoah@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

No u