On Sat, Jun 16, 2012 at 12:06 PM, Arun Venkataswamy <arun289 at gmail.com>
wrote:
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But there is no end to human ingenuity. There is a
famous Tamil proverb "Vallavanukku Pullum Ayudham" meaning "Even a blade of
Grass can become a weapon in the hands of a truly capable person". The
Voyager space probes which are on the edge of the solar system, nearing
interstellar space run with processor much less capable than the processor
in the cheapest cell phone you can buy. They work with 8000 bytes of RAM.
With this, the human `spirit` in them was capable of bringing voyager 2 on
a grand tour of the planets keeping it's date with each planet and is
currently `on course` at nearly 17 billion Km from home.