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From: John Ames <commodorejohn@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Odd - China Building "Space Supercomputer"
Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2025 14:32:55 -0700
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On Tue, 10 Jun 2025 21:59:16 +0100
Chris Narkiewicz <hello@ezaquarii.com> wrote:

> Any actor seriously thinking about space exploration must leverage
> computationaly heavy AI tools. Ping to mars is 4h. Can't do anything
> remotely sitting in Dallas.

I'm still profoundly confused what any of this has to do with Linux,
but this is a terribly funny thing to say; every major accomplishment
in automated space exploration has been made with the combination of
extraordinarily talented software engineers and simple, robust hardware
doing more with less. Voyager 2 is *still operating,* and that's
running a combination of 16/18-bit hardware implemented in discrete
logic, for the love of Mike; it's the Guinness record holder for
longest continually-operating computer. "Heavy AI tools," my ass.