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hamsterjill

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4. Cool post!

Reply to LetMyPeopleVote (Original post)

Sun Apr 12, 2026, 10:35 PM

22 hrs ago

Thanks. I thought about her last night. There was a post about Artemis and I mentioned the Mercury, Gemini and Apollo programs. (I'm old as dirt, so I lived through that time period).

What was accomplished back then - without AI and without all of the computer power we have today - was simply amazing. The people behind the scenes didn't get any credit, and they certainly deserved it.

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