July 2009
6 posts
Apollo 11 and Other Screw-Ups →
For the lunar missions, 36K words of “fixed” (read-only) memory, each word consisting of 15 bits plus a parity bit, were available for the program. In addition there were 2K words of artfully timeshared “erasable” or RAM memory. Allowing for the identical Apollo guidance computer (AGC) in the Command Module (CM), containing a program called COLOSSUS, it is correct to say...
Dieting Monkeys Offer Hope for Living Longer →
A long-awaited study of aging in rhesus monkeys suggests, with some reservations, that people could in principle fend off the usual diseases of old age and considerably extend their life span by following a special diet.
“Absolutely beautiful: http://bit.ly/pUHnW”
– schwa
