When programmers at the MIT Instrumentation Laboratory set out to develop the flight software for the Apollo 11 space program in the mid-1960s, the necessary technology did not exist. They had to invent it. They came up with a new way to store computer programs, called “rope memory,” and created a special version of the…
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A Possible Alien Life On Moon Titan
Near-infrared radiation from the Sun reflecting off Titan‘s hydrocarbon seas. NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona/University of Idaho The precursors to life may be on Saturn’s smoggy moon Titan, but not in the way you think. Far from there being DNA or RNA drifting around the muddy surface of his hydrocarbon-rich world, a team of scientists from Cornell…