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Apollo 13 Engineers to be Honored
sconeu writes "Yahoo! News is carrying a story that the engineers who helped save the crew of Apollo 13 will be honored by GlobalSpec.
The article mentions the jury rigged air scrubbers, and gives duct tape its due." Here is our coverage of the 35th anniversary.
An inanimate carbon rod
Brocklesby Park Cricket Club
Duct tape is like The Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it's used to bind the universe together.
Athletic Scholarships to universities make as much sense as academic scholarships to sports teams.
Now we just have to figure out how to use duct tape to convert from english to metric units.
I knew they didn't get a fair trial...
No engineering project is complete unless it's held together by copious amounts of duct tape. No exceptions.
Congratulations to the Apollo 13 engineers.
They should do something like this every year. They have the Grammies, Emmys, etc., why not the Nerdies? They could use Slashdot sections as the categories.
"One thing a Southern boy will never say is, 'I don't think duct tape will fix it.'"
That's so cool, but obviously means I'll never want to visit the South without my own personal surgeon.
done by subcontractors
:-)
And not just any subcontractors, mind you... but the lowest bidders.
-CausticPuppy "Of all the people I know, you're certainly one of them." -Somebody I don't know
The obvious answer is because the entire thing was a hoax. Ron Howard was contacted at the time (he was already 15 and NASA computers predicted he would be a great film director) and asked what would make his movie (already planned for production in 1995 back in the 70's) dramatic, and he came up with this idea.
It should also be pointed out that Tom Hanks is a robot specifically made to star in Apollo 13, which explains his meteoric rise to acting stardom. In fact, Bosom Buddies was created to serve as his vehicle by NASA.
NASA has more plans in place for both Ron and Tom in further upcoming movies about the "moon landings". Just you wait.
Can I get also get front-page Slashdot story if my company gives "a crystal globe" to Linus Torvalds and/or Bill Gates?
No, but give either/both an enema and it will be frontpage news.
Don't fight for your country, if your country does not fight for you.