Comment Vicinity to the sun? (Score 1) 21
> "Mission control cannot communicate with the probe during this rendezvous due to its vicinity to the sun [sic]
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> "Mission control cannot communicate with the probe during this rendezvous due to its vicinity to the sun [sic]
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Sorry, I meant 100 * 10^9 Hz.
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No -- according to the linked article, it's 0 to 100 GHz (meaning 100 * 10^12 Hz). The quoted range of 0 to 1012 Hz would not be enormous, it would be trivial.
I worked with a few mainframe computers before it, but an Apple ][ was the first computer I owned. I eventually wrote Apple Writer (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Writer) on that machine, made millions, and I still have it --
* Picture when it was new: http://i.imgur.com/CjoRH.jpg
* What it looks like now: http://i.imgur.com/tb4Ea1s.jpg
Biology is the only science in which multiplication means the same thing as division.