MOON MACHINES

Thinking about just arriving to the moon is incredible, but the fact that human could do it, is more impressive. The first thing I asked to myself was: What did they think about wanting to reach the moon? In that year one would not think that there was enough technology to build a rocket that reached the moon. People could think “This project would be accomplished maybe in 10 years” but it is very incredible how half a million people worked in all these machines in a very short period. With this documentary we can see how impressive the MIT research is, and how they can develop technology for a specific objective.

We can see a lot of components that were created to build something bigger, and everyone was working on a component. When we see the huge computers, we can think as they, how the hell someone will put these monsters into a spacecraft? For me, Hal Laning (who solved this problem) was a genius. It is impressive how he made a better approach to how computers manage the tasks.

When I listen, that software was an unknown concept, I only thought “How can they make something huge when the term software was recently defined?” Writing the programs by hand should be a tedious task and should take to much time. The memory issue should be a very difficult issue, because the disks were fragile and with no much memory. But the solution was awesome, the rope memory is something I didn´t know. In that time having an error was fatal, because it could consume too much time to fix it and run the program again, and obviously should cost a lot.

In general, I think that this project was very huge, and the astronauts should be very prepared to manage and know all that systems and even more when they lost communication with earth