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Smartphone vs. Apollo 11
How does the computing power of your smartphone compare to the guidance computer aboard the 1969 Apollo 11 lunar module? Is it … A.) About as powerful, B.) 120 times more powerful, C) 12,000 times more powerful or D.) 120,000 times more powerful?
🚀 The answer: D.) Modern smartphones have about 120,000 times the processing power of the computer that landed on the moon in 1969. Incredible, right?
Oh, that reminds me … Why’s the internet so bad in outer space? It’s zero-G! (Oh, that was so bad, it was good!)
Tags: Apollo 11, processing power, smartphones, trivia
