"Steven P. McNicoll" wrote in message
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"Jim Fisher" wrote in message
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To you, perhaps. Not to the rest of us thinking individuals who've been
around since before the Apollo days. We recall that the first manned
mission outside the earth's atmosphere required a literal army of the
best
minds in the world.


Well, the best minds in the USSR anyway.

And your point is what? That you know that the first man in space was a
Ruskie? I am truly impressed, McNiacle! Why, I bet you can even name the
first man on the moon if it weren't for the fact that the whole moon thing
was fake, huh?

It required the invention of enormously powerful
computers (with up to 16kb of RAM!) that could actually fit into a
suitcase-sized compartment.


Interesting. Can you tell us more about Soviet computer technology of
that
era?

Umm, no I can't. Don't know a damn thing about 'em. I suppose that at the
time the first Ruskie went up There, "computers" on the ship were no more
than whiz-wheels or slide rules.

You point is?

Only men with the "right stuff" as well as an
entire country behind them could participate.

Now? A few engineer-types in a warehouse out in the dessert are
seriously
contemplating doing what, to me, still seems impossible . . . And may
still prove to be.


Impossible? How can you consider it impossible if it's already been done?

"Seems impossible," igit.

Those that are doing it today are using the knowledge that was gained by
the
pioneering efforts over forty years ago.

Really?

--
Jim Fisher