A320 navdata update with a 1.44 MB floppy disk. Disk 1 of 13.
It loads the current navigation database into the FMGC... airports, runways, navaids, waypoints, airways, SIDs, STARs, approaches, the lot. Still happens every 28 days on a lot of older frames. Most Gen Z have never seen one of these in real life.
In 1968, during Apollo 8, Bill Anders offered to humanity among the deepest of gifts an astronaut can give. He traveled to the threshold of the Moon and helped all of us see something else: ourselves. He embodied the lessons and the purpose of exploration. We will miss him.
Humans who write code are not programmers. They are middle managers giving a list of instructions for the computer to do the real programming for them.
Putin does not need an "off-ramp." He needs to lose. And only when he loses - only when he is humiliated - will Russia's wars of imperial conquest finally come to an end https://t.co/FX82PpWmix
Ad astra, Vangelis.
The film composer contributed scores to explorations by our #JunoMission to Jupiter. Here, ride along with the @NASASolarSystem spacecraft around Jupiter and moon Ganymede, with sound up.
Full playlist: https://t.co/bNyqzQGWRS