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
Yes, she just turned 90. Amazing career even after the Apollo program
She’s also in a Lego set!
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
I don’t want to be that guy… however:
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.’
See, it was a hoax. There’s the script for the fake landing footage
In all seriousness, who was this really? Wasn’t she some computer science pioneer or something?
She coined the term “software engineering,” was the first software engineet, and also led NASA’s software engineering division for the moon landing.
Margaret Hamilton: https://science.nasa.gov/people/margaret-hamilton/
False, that’s Daniel Radcliffe in one of his quirky post HP roles
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
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.
Three words: Farting Corpse Buddy!
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.
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.
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
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…
How is that going to help with the NASA budget?
It won’t, certainly not directly. It would help individual scientists if they can land funding from non-governmental sources, though.
Looks like someone printed one JavaScript file from any modern website
Remember when Elon Musk bought Twitter and he asked for all the code to be printed out so he could ‘assess’ it? Lol. Good times.
Rude, but correct.
As of 2026, Science has solved about half of the Van Allen Belt radiation problem for human space travel.
