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  1. uk 75

    Could the US have got a crewed Mars Mission in the 80s?

    We have discussed the pros and cons of Stephen Baxter's novel "Voyage" about a US crew landing on Mars in 1985. But could a mission like that have been done with the technology available to NASA?
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    • 1960s 1970s 1980s alternate history cold war computing deep space probes manned mars nasa nuclear rockets space age space race space transportation system united states
    • Replies: 81
    • Forum: Alternative History and Future Speculation
  2. Grey Havoc

    Adobe Flash Player finally bows out

    https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-55497353 https://games.slashdot.org/story/21/01/01/029259/its-game-over-for-farmville-as-flash-also-buys-the-farm https://tech.slashdot.org/story/20/12/31/0217256/adobe-now-shows-alerts-in-windows-10-to-uninstall-flash-player
    • Grey Havoc
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    • 1990s 1996 2010s 2020 2021 computing history of the internet
    • Replies: 9
    • Forum: The Bar
  3. Grey Havoc

    Automatic Implementation of Secure Silicon (DARPA)

    https://breakingdefense.com/2020/05/darpa-seeks-secure-microchip-supply-chain/
    • Grey Havoc
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    • 2020 2024 cold war ii computer architecture computer security computing cyber warfare cyberwar darpa defense advanced research projects agency electronic warfare electronics information warfare microprocessors security engine system-on-chip united states
    • Replies: 2
    • Forum: Military
  4. Foo Fighter

    Social media trackers active on this site.

    Very surprised to find a report from firefox that social media site trackers are active on this forum. Not something I would have thought possible but that's the report for you. Comments? Thoughts?
  5. A Tentative Fleet Plan

    Hip Pocket I & II

    From Norman Friedman's US Naval Weapons (1983) p161-162. Hip Pocket I was authorized on the 30th of August, and evaluated from February-June 1972 The DDG-4 Lawrence was modernised with the following: Chapparel Redeye an IR Search and Track system a CW threat warning radar (sharing the SPS-10...
    • A Tentative Fleet Plan
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    • air defence anti-surface warfare cold war computing early 1970s electronic warfare electronics naval gun naval radar radar surface-to-air missile united states navy
    • Replies: 4
    • Forum: Secret Naval Projects
  6. Flyaway

    Quantum Computing Thread

    Article for putting this leaked news in prospective. https://www.wired.co.uk/article/google-quantum-computers-supremacy
    • Flyaway
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    • 21st century computer architecture computing quantum computing quantum information science quantum mechanics
    • Replies: 85
    • Forum: The Bar
  7. Flyaway

    Elon Musk’s Neuralink

    https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/16/technology/neuralink-elon-musk.html
    • Flyaway
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    • 2020s computing cybernetics cyberpunk late 2010s robotics
    • Replies: 101
    • Forum: The Bar
  8. Graham1973

    The Apollo AGC Restoration Project

    A video series covering the effort to restore a surviving Apollo LEM AGC (Believed to be the one used in the LTA-8 prototype LEM) in time for it to be used to simulate the Apollo 11 landing on the 50th anniversary of the first lunar landing. Episode 15 is of especial note as it features a piece...
    • Graham1973
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    • aerospace apollo program computer architecture computing space age space race
    • Replies: 25
    • Forum: The Bar
  9. bobbymike

    DARPA Blackjack

    Blackjack will develop and demonstrate a low earth orbit constellation that provides global persistent coverage.
    • bobbymike
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    • 2020s cold war ii computing defense advanced research projects agency late 2010s obama administration united states
    • Replies: 27
    • Forum: Secret Space Projects
  10. Grey Havoc

    OGAS - a planned Soviet national computer network

    The full name was 'The All-State Automated System for the Gathering and Processing of Information for the Accounting, Planning and Governance of the National Economy, USSR' (OGAS being a Russian acronym for the first four words). It has been described as the 'Soviet Internet'. It might be more...
  11. Grey Havoc

    End of the Internet as we know it, at least in Europe?

    https://www.reuters.com/article/us-eu-copyright/eu-lawmakers-agree-common-stand-on-copyright-reforms-idUSKCN1LS1QR https://tech.slashdot.org/story/18/09/12/1129224/european-parliament-votes-in-favor-of-controversial-copyright-laws...
    • Grey Havoc
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    • 2020s computing history of the internet interesting times late 2010s social media
    • Replies: 73
    • Forum: The Bar
  12. S

    Think faster: advantages of quantum processing shown in head-to-head race

    Think faster: advantages of quantum processing shown in head-to-head race scientists show a clear advantage to a prototype quantum processor over a classical processor in solving a machine learning algorithm A prototype quantum processor repeatedly beat a traditional, classical processor in a...
    • seruriermarshal
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    • computing international business machines late 2010s quantum computing raytheon
    • Replies: 0
    • Forum: The Bar
  13. S

    Chinese scientists make quantum leap in computing

    Xinhua, May 3, 2017 Adjust font size: Chinese scientists have built world's first quantum computing machine that goes beyond the early classical -- or conventional -- computers, paving the way to the ultimate realization of quantum computing beating classical computers. Scientists announced...
    • seruriermarshal
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    • chinese academy of sciences computing early 2020s late 2010s people's republic of china quantum computing siasustc
    • Replies: 2
    • Forum: The Bar
  14. Sferrin

    Computer Classic: "The Incredible Machine" 1968 Western Electric - AT&T - Bell L

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8GdxwsbmZk
    • Sferrin
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    • at& t bell laboratories bell labs cold war computing electronics united states western electric (weco)
    • Replies: 1
    • Forum: The Bar
  15. P

    Windows 10

    Is Windows 10 worth upgrading too?
    • papacavy
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    • cloud computing computing microsoft corporation
    • Replies: 19
    • Forum: The Bar
  16. sublight_

    Hackers stole data for every federal employee

    It's funny that there is always so much debate on every new weapons platform and program, and yet we are losing the biggest battle ever, right under our noses with little to no fanfare. Millions of federal employees just became juicy espionage targets. This is the kind of thing that should have...
    • sublight_
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    • 2020s cloud computing computing cyber warfare cyberwar interesting times late 2010s
    • Replies: 24
    • Forum: The Bar
  17. Triton

    Navy Needs New Servers for Aegis Cruisers and Destroyers After Chinese Purchase

    I guess people can now get fired for buying IBM. "Navy Needs New Servers for Aegis Cruisers and Destroyers After Chinese Purchase of IBM Line" By: Megan Eckstein May 5, 2015 2:16 PM Source...
    • Triton
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    • 2010s area air defence ballistic missile defense computing cruiser destroyer ibm international business machines people's republic of china tactical ballistic missile defense united states
    • Replies: 1
    • Forum: Military
  18. Grey Havoc

    MONIAC and the warfare state (AIRMINDED)

    http://airminded.org/2008/06/04/moniac-and-the-warfare-state/ One of the interesting things about this is that the prototype of this 'analogue hydraulic computer' was built out of spare Lancaster parts!
    • Grey Havoc
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    • 1950s airminded blog analogue hydraulic computer british commonwealth british empire cold war computer computer architecture computing financephalograph great britain hydraulic computer hydraulic computing late 1940s london school of economics monetary national income analogue computer new zealand post-world war ii royal air force the phillips machine
    • Replies: 3
    • Forum: Found on the Internet
  19. Grey Havoc

    Japanese 1944 Differential analyser

    Built by Osaka Imperial University and Syowa Kookuu-keiki Co.Ltd., likely on a Imperial Japanese Navy contract. Note that postwar the Japanese use the American spelling for analyser, i.e. analyzer. There are a couple of pictures at the original article. It had an older (completed in 1942)...
    • Grey Havoc
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    • computer computing empire of japan imperial japanese navy osaka imperial university world war ii
    • Replies: 0
    • Forum: Secret Naval Projects
  20. Triton

    Chip-Scale Combinatorial Atomic Navigator (C-SCAN)

    "Northrop Grumman Awarded Contract to Develop Miniaturized Inertial Navigation System for DARPA" PR Newswire Northrop Grumman Corporation June 5, 2014 8:30 AM Source: http://finance.yahoo.com/news/northrop-grumman-awarded-contract-develop-123000677.html
    • Triton
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    • 2010s computing darpa defense advanced research projects agency early 21st century post-cold war united states
    • Replies: 2
    • Forum: Military
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