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

1. What is the link between
Neil Armstrong and a
Google search ?
Laurent Maumet

3. We all know him
because of this

4. And that...

5. Armstrong was
part of the
APOLLO program

6. source : wikipedia
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7. This is a simple
google homepage

8. And a basic query about armstrong"...
... executed in 0.28 seconds

9. It takes about the
same amount of
computing ...
source : google

10. ... to answer one Google
Search query ...
source : google

11. ... as all the computing
done for the entire
Apollo program
source : google

12. WHAT ?

13. " 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

14. "It takes about the same amount of computing to answer
one Google Search query as all the computing done for the
entire Apollo program."
( 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 )
source : google

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