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Originally Posted by flatbutt
I'm a fairly educated man but this stuff still thrills me. Imagine aiming at a spot in three dimensional space, calculating when an orbiting body will enter that space, firing a rocket at the calculated coordinates ( on 3 axes!) and hitting the target. Yes I know it's all highly predictable but dang. I should tell you that I am also still amazed by the fact that an airplane can fly. I understand the physics but still...
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Can you imagine what one of the great minds of the past such as Archimedes, Galileo or da Vinci would think after being presented with these machines and their maths?
I not infrequently muse about what their reactions would be.