David Darling
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first heard Sep 2025
last heard 1 Aug
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That's about $38 million today.
The iPhone, maybe $1,000.
2,000 times less.
Absolutely extraordinary.
So that just shows how the records moved in the computing world.
And really, it's unfair because we're comparing the Craves' supercomputer with a thing you carry around in your pocket.
What you really have to compare it with is supercomputers today.
And the fastest of those is the Frontier computer at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, which is an exoflop machine.
In other words, it can conduct a million trillion operations a second.
So there we're talking about record speed in computers, which obviously has a huge practical implication.
Again, I'm going to take you back in time to 1895, a park in Brooklyn.
where they had the first vertical loop roller coaster.
It was called a Flip Flat Railway.
And it was quite a sensation.
It had a vertical loop 25 feet high, which is quite small.
And that was one of the problems with it.
It was small.
And the biggest problem was that it was perfectly round.
so you would have uh them coming in you'd have the passengers coming in uh to this loop they would then enter this vertical circle loop around and come out again now the problem is going from a straight direction into a circle they were subjected to a tremendous g-force
In fact, 12 G's, far more than an astronaut would experience going into space or reentering.
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