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The (Surprisingly Funny) Code for the Apollo Moon Landings Is on GitHub (popularmechanics.com)
16 points by jpindar on July 20, 2019 | hide | past | favorite | 4 comments



The detailed and verbose comments are amazing. Not to mention I have zero idea what the assembly code or even the math is doing.

from https://github.com/chrislgarry/Apollo-11/blob/master/Luminar...

# SINCE WE WILL FIND THE MODE 1 SHAFT ANGLE LATER, WE CAN FIND THE MODE 1 TRUNNION BY SIMPLY TAKING THE ARCSIN OF THE Y COMPONENT, THE ASIN GIVIN AN ANSWER WHOSE ABS VAL IS LESS THAN 90 DEG.

Nervously looks around.. Ummmm what?


[2016]


I mention this because some, if not all, of the code links are dead.




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