Moving the computer

[George K]

Same location, 58 years later.

[taiwan_girl]

555 Yup.

More computer power in your phone than on the moon module.

[Axtremus]

@taiwan_girl said in Moving the computer:

More computer power in your phone than on the moon module.

Milimeter for milimeter and gram for gram, we will continue to have more powerful computers on Earth than in outerspace, for the simple reason that without the protection of the Earth‘s magnetic field and the atmosphere, electronics would be subjected to much stronger radiation from the Sun and other sources in outer space. So any computer we send up into outer space will necessarily use integrated circuits with much larger feature sizes and extra shielding to better survive the stronger radiation in outer space.