35th Anniversary of Apollo 13 Splashdown

orac2 writes "35 years ago today, the crew of the Apollo 13 mission splashed down in the Pacific, after a harrowing four days following an oxygen tank explosion aboard their spacecraft. If you've only seen the Ron Howard movie, IEEE Spectrum has an article about what really went on in mission control to save the crew, with interviews with Gene Kranz, etc,and including a previously unreported hack the lunar module controllers had to come up with in real-time just to turn on the LM."

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Re:It's all fiction anyways

[John Seminal]

Who marked the parent as Troll. It is TRUE!

There is a reason why chemistry and physics professors weed out 70% of their students in first year classes. They want parrots, people who don't think. They want the ones who can memorize, and the science program sucks up their 20's.

Science professors don't want the guy with the used copy of Jack Kerouac "On The Road" showing up in their classes, asking questions like "explain to me again how you know there is a nuon and gluon in there?". I was in physics 100 and asked the professor the most simple question when we were talking about classical mechanics versus modern ideas. I asked "What is gravity, what is pulling me down". The teacher, who was a gifted artist, drew a picture on the blackboard of Wile E. Coyote falling off a cliff and said "he never should have chased road runner.

Look people, for the HISTORY of mankind, those in power lied to everyone else. Gallileo was put in jail because of what he knew. Countless others were executed.

Today the system is different. Only the "right" kind of people are allowed to study physics. Once they get their PhD, they are admitted to the club, told it was all bullshit, and given a stipend to keep quiet. That is the system!!

Re:a...hem, lem

[orac2]

I guess it's one of those six-of-one, half-a-dozen of the other things: for example in his book, Lovell calls it the LEM, while in his book Kranz uses LM.

Re:It's all fiction anyways

[orac2]

Actually, special relativity, (to my pleasant surprise) doesn't require much heavy maths at all. It's general relativity that'll cause your brain to dribble out your ears.