When humans return to the Moon in '2024', HPE would like us to remember: We built the computer that simmed this Amid NASA's plans to put boots on the Moon by 2024, Hewlett Packard Enterprise is blowing its own trumpet that simulations in preparation for the Artemis mission have been carried out on its Aitken supercomputer. The HPE-built high-performance computing (HPC) system has been crunching complex calculations to better understand …
The original Hewlett-Packard company split into two in 1999: HP Inc. went on selling mostly Chinese-made consumer tat while the actual engineering bits (those that did participate in the US space program) became Agilent. HPE is a spin off from HP, the consumer company only vaguely related to Hewlett-Packard by its legal history, and not related at all in terms of employees, culture, ethics, or ability to do engineering.
I am part of the group of people that has been boycotting Hewlett-Packard, and later HP, ever since they appointed that Fiorina woman. This would be the same group as the original founders' families, so in quite good company, if you ask me.
What are you on about? They are talking about the Aitken supercomputer that IS from HPE and is doing the sims NOW. Admittedly it probably originated from Cray but they have an HPE badge on them now. Your post seems like an irrelevant bitter rant.
Given that every space program is a rounding error on the amount of money spent on military procurement, I think we can manage to do both. Hell, the cost of a single F-35 would probably feed every starving person on a given continent. It's not that we can't fix the problems on Earth, it's that we either can't agree what the problems are or we've made affirmative choices to continue them. Either way, fuck it, may as well go to space.
We need spearhead projects like space to drive us forwards and help sort out earth problems.
It’s part of human nature to push on and explore beyond the envelope.
Anyway, this moon thing won’t happen in 2024, that timescale was set to generate some glory in Trumps final term.
2030 is more realistic.
Maybe; the time between Kennedy's "Let's all go to the moon" speech and them actually landing on the moon was only 6 and a half years and they were starting from a lower technological base than we are today.
I agree it'll likely take longer but I think technically it's feasible to do it in the suggested time. Whether it's politically feasible is another question but I wouldn't be surprised to see SpaceX (and maybe even Blue Origin) pushing on semi-independently.
I'd love to see it happen.
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