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gaius on July 21, 2009 | parent | context | favorite | on: Source code from Apollo 11 open-sourced

Interestingly making 160-char message fly through the air is pretty reliable, because that bit of the system was implemented by real engineers.

eru on July 22, 2009 [–]

Though it can take a long time to get through, as it only uses spare capacity.

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