Apollo and Google

What is the link between Neil Armstrong and a Google search ?

Laurent Maumet

We all know him because of this

And that...

Armstrong was part of the APOLLO program

10 years program (62-72)

In 6 spaceflights, 12 men walked on the Moon

estimated cost of $170 billions

382 kg of lunar rocks and soil to

earth

source : wikipedia

A HUGE program

This is a simple google homepage

And a basic query about armstrong"...

... executed in 0.28 seconds

source : google

It takes about the same amount of computing ...

... to answer one Google Search query ...

source : google

source : google

... as all the computing done for the entire

Apollo program

WHAT ?

" it takes about the same amount of computing

to answer one Google Search query as all the computing done for the entire

Apollo program. "

source : google

"It takes about the same amount of computing to answer one Google Search query as all the computing done for the

entire Apollo program."

source : google

( i.e. all the computing done throughout the planning and execution

of the 11-year, 17 mission Apollo program, in flight and on the ground )

aThe Apollo Guidance Computer on board the lunar module executed instructions at a speed of about 40 KHz , about 100,000 times slower than a high-end laptop today.