NASA have released the source code to the Apollo 11 1969 Moon landings! https://github.com/chrislgarry/Apollo-11 So now you, yes YOU, can go to the moon! All you have to do is build a space-craft yourself, and use computer hardware that's old enough run the compiled code, and make sure the Clangers don't nick your flag when you get to the Moon :lol: Seriously, the source code is genuine (as far as I know), and it's good that they released it, especially if it stops even 1% of the "The Moon landings are fake" nonsense, but even if not, then it's cool to have the source code anyway, plus hopefully it might help the open source movement and encourage more companies to release the source code for their older, no longer used, products and programs. Source: http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/apollo-11s-source-code-tons-easter-eggs-including/story?id=40515222
Bumped into this a few days ago, very interesting! It'd be great to see more things like these coming up.
I read somewhere that that code was written by a woman, or maybe that was something else nasa related..
Speaking of the "NASA faked the moon landings" nonsense, I hear on a Snopes article that there was a video in which T. Patrick Murray interviewed Stanley Kubrick, where the later supposedly confessed to having participated in the so-called hoax. According to what the spokesperson of Kubrick's widow said, "The interview is a lie, Stanley Kubrick has never been interviewed by T. Patrick Murray the whole story is made up, fraudulent and untrue." Murray didn't admit to having faked the interview, but I think that this chump is out to make everybody believe in a totally baseless conspiracy theory by having someone impersonate the famous director. Murray probably figured that there are Kubrick fans out there gullible enough to believe it in order for more people to also believe it. Here's a link to the article: http://www.snopes.com/false-stanley-kubrick-faked-moon-landings/ Moving on to the topic of the Apollo 11 landing source code, I'd have to say that it's quite an interesting proposition!
That's history right there. Very interesting for my geek self. [Edit: About the sociology of women in computer science] Back in the days, programming was considered a lesser peasant applied version of mathematics and/or hardware engineering. Society being quite sexist at the time, it was thus considered a perfect job for women, who were already doing tedious hand calculations for Math teachers. Programming was considered, and I quote Dr. Grace Hopper, "just like planning a dinner". Eventually programming was picked up by many males and they managed to turn around the perception of its manliness by blaming errors on women, and hiring methodology that did advantage men. Also, sexists ads: It eventually turned into the sausage fest of the 80s to 00s, and now it's becoming, ever so slowly more equal. This is an interesting Stanford article about that: http://goo.gl/bRk3pj
