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Reverse-engineering the Globus INK, a Soviet spaceflight navigation computer
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#13sometimes you do wonder how USSR, with all these mad scientists and engineers, could ever go down
To be fair they were facing pretty much the entire rest of the worlds fight against "evil communism". It's more remarkable how far they got with essentially a new way of trying things.
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#16sometimes you do wonder how USSR, with all these mad scientists and engineers, could ever go down
To be fair they were facing pretty much the entire rest of the worlds fight against "evil communism". It's more remarkable how far they got with essentially a new way of trying things.
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#18sometimes you do wonder how USSR, with all these mad scientists and engineers, could ever go down
When you can't provide basic needs to your population, it doesn't matter how good the scientists are
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#19This is coolest thing I've read all year. It's fascinating to see all the work that went through a single instrument.
So many fascinating facts about this! Did you know this had used gyroscopes to calculate the position and orientation of the spacecraft in orbit. It was designed to operate in the harsh environment of space, where temperatures could range from -100 to +150 degrees Celsius. And the thing only weighed 10kg! And super duper reliable I believe it had a mean time between failures of about 10,000 hours. Old yet still so impressive! Thanks for this!