Comments by "Paul Frederick" (@1pcfred) on "Apollo 11’s journey to the moon, annotated" video.

  1. +Karlton est computers are just machines that can perform precision mathematics in billionths of a second. Slices of time that you cannot even perceive. BTW implementation is not science, it is engineering.
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  2. I saw it live. It was pretty cool.
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  3. It did not all work. But enough worked so they pulled it off. There was actually a serious computer glitch that occurred during the descent to the Moon. They were within a minute of mission failure. So it was quite a close thing. Then there's what happened to Apollo 1 and 13.
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  4. I saw it live when it happened. It was pretty exciting. One out of every 4 people alive on the planet watched it. So it was must see TV at the time. Everyone pretty much takes Apollo as the high water mark of human existence. Nothing before or since has surpassed the lunar landing as far as human achievement goes.
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  5. The Moon landing achieved plenty. You're ignoring the wider reason why we did it. We did not go to the Moon just to get there. We went to shift momentum in the Cold War. Which could have ended up a hot war had things gone differently if we had not got to the Moon first. When our astronauts said we went for peace for mankind they meant it literally. They knew the stakes. If they weren't flying to the Moon they'd have been fighter jocks in Vietnam, or elsewhere. If the conflict between us and the communists had spread. Peace through strength is a concept that eludes you.
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