Simply amazing, you know....seeing how x-ray and CT scanners have evolved over the past few decades; puts the work performed on older scanners (looking at you, Terminal Man!) to shame. That said, math skills and scientific work still matter; there's an anecdote from the early 90's about a join US-Russian team that was working on electromagnetic simulations.
The U.S. team brought in their equipment (which was top of the line for its' time) while the Russians used their own equipment (which wasn't)...however the Russians were able to match the Americans on their results; how? By simplifying the underlying math via. writing their own code for their equipment; the technical stuff would go over my head in an instant but the Russians' got to within 5-19% of the Americans' results.
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