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[–] 97 points 2 months ago (3 children)

This is a photo of Margaret Hamilton the programmer standing next to the handwritten source codes for the Apollo navigation computers.

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Margaret_Hamilton.gif?hl=en-US

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  • [–] 57 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (4 children)

    Looks like someone printed one JavaScript file from any modern website

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  • [–] 34 points 2 months ago

    Kubrick did actually film a fake version of the moon landing, but he was such a perfectionist that he made them film it on location ... thus making the fake moon landing real

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  • [–] 28 points 2 months ago (15 children)

    In all seriousness, who was this really? Wasn't she some computer science pioneer or something?

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  • [–] 26 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    I'm a little offended at referring to her as the director's assistant, given what she actually did. It could have been just as good a shitpost if she had been referred to as his screenwriter and not diminished how instrumental she was.

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  • [–] [S] 9 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Fair point, even being a shitpost and all. I wanted to say lead writer + her name, but then it would have been hard to also mention Kubrick, making ppl realize the joke.

    Regardless, she is an amazing person who achieved a lot already very young, and continued to do so. Btw she just turned 90 a day or two, that prompted me to create the post.

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  • [–] 11 points 2 months ago (4 children)

    False, that's Daniel Radcliffe in one of his quirky post HP roles

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  • [–] 16 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    Daniel Radcliffe's Agent: Okay, Harry Potter movies are done, you're rich and famous now! What do you wanna do next?

    DR: GET NAKED WITH A HORSE

    Agent: ... Okay, and after that?

    DR: NAIL GUNS TO MY HANDS

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago

    Don't forget the movie where he grows horns after his girlfriend dies. I was never a Daniel Radcliffe fan (never saw Harry Potter) until after he started making these fever dream movies. I love it.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 months ago*

    She led the team that did the code for the moon landing.

    For a while this picture was used with a caption saying she wrote the whole thing by hand. What she did was impressive enough without needing to lie.

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  • [–] 12 points 2 months ago*

    This is a quality shitpost right here. They don’t make ‘em like that anymore.

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  • [–] 11 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    See, it was a hoax. There's the script for the fake landing footage

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  • [–] 10 points 2 months ago

    All that work and Neil Armstrong STILL fluffed his lines!

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  • [–] 8 points 2 months ago

    You can tell they didn't have the money to do it for real

    They're propping the door open with a coat rack

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  • [–] 7 points 2 months ago

    That's the first draft script of 2001, as written by an old-fashioned AI 'expert system.'

    Kubrik decided it was more cost-effective to just have HAL sing 'Daisy, Daisy.'

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  • [–] 7 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    If Kubrick had filmed a fake moon landing the conspiracy wouldn’t exist. The nimrods that believe that shit couldn’t begin to fathom how much of an insane perfectionist he was, he’d have created his own moon

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago

    I like your way of thinking here. I'm honestly not sure if the actual geologists working on lunar soil simulants today are more hardcore than Kubrick was back then.

    With all the cuts to NASA and the American scientific enterprise generally, we could use this kind of angel perfectionist director these days. I wonder if Denis Villeneuve could be convinced to forget about Arrakis for a while and work closer to home...

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Real talk: I heard somewhere that this is Jack Black's Mom.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago

    The connections she made on set are how Jack Black got his start Hollywood

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    She has such a cute smile lol

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago

    I heard there's a lost director's cut where Armstrong meets an alien

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago

    Interesting interpretation of this photo...

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    I don't want to be that guy... however:

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago (1 child)

    That is not correct… that picture is ALL OF HER OWN ACCOMPLISHMENTS, not a movie script…

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago*

    I wonder why that script could fill more than a dozen books. Must have been really long and complicated!

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago

    good one xD

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  • [–] -2 points 2 months ago*

    As of 2026, Science has solved about half of the Van Allen Belt radiation problem for human space travel.

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