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Apollo 13 Engineers to be Honored

Posted by samzenpus on from the duct-tape-to-the-rescue dept.

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.

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  1. Who? by FTL · · Score: 5, Insightful
    Who the heck are GlobalSpec? Is it news when some random company decides to award someone famous? Can I get also get front-page Slashdot story if my company gives "a crystal globe" to Linus Torvalds and/or Bill Gates?

    No criticism to the Apollo 13 engineers. What they did was amazing. But what's this story got to do with them?

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    1. Re:Who? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful
      Who the heck are GlobalSpec [globalspec.com]?
      They are, according to themselves "The Engineering Search Engine".
      Is it news when some random company decides to award someone famous? Can I get also get front-page Slashdot story if my company gives "a crystal globe" to Linus Torvalds and/or Bill Gates?
      No you probably wont get front page Slashdot publicity if you try and do something similar to what Globalspec has done. If only because they thought of it before you did. Unfortunately, for your company, this is how the world works.
  2. Re:Obligatory duct tape joke by telecsan · · Score: 2, Insightful

    At least with Duct Tape, the light side and dark side are always in equal proportion.

  3. Re:Thing I'd like to know is... by Steven+Edwards · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Yes I laugh whenever I hear/read someone bitch about lowest bidders on a contract. The most impressive enginering feats were done with slave labor. Throwing money at a problem solves nothing.

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  4. Re:Ob. QDB ref by telecsan · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Duct Tape can be used for all sorts of neat things... duck tape, otoh, should only be used on Ducks. Well, I guess I'll leave that as an exercise for the reader.