Some crazy for thought

If you really want to know how cool humans can be when they actually try, take a look at this.

Today's computers have so much power in comparison to the very first computers, that we can't even measure them in bytes anymore. We use GB.

1 GB = 1,000,000,000 bytes  (I have been corrected. This is approximate. But for this, it's good enough.)

We often measure files in MB.

1 MB = 1,000,000 bytes

When things get any smaller than this, we practically can't function. Any cell phone without internet access and at  least 3 GB of memory is considered ancient hardware.

AND YET

The computer for Apollo 11 had 2 KB.

We landed on the moon with 2,000 bytes. 

Today's average mp3 file is about 8,000,000 bytes.  

We could land on the moon, literally for a song. 

(Sorry, but I had to. You understand.)

But yes, we could blast a rocket out of Earth's atmosphere, drive it over 300,000 miles, land it on a giant space rock, take off from the space rock, drive over 300,000 miles back, re-enter the atmosphere, and survive the whole process all with 4,000 times LESS memory than it takes me to wake up in the morning.

Crazy. (In a cool way.)