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OT: The Math That Saved Apollo 13 Just Sold for $388,375 Message #1 Posted by Egan Ford on 1 Dec 2011, 11:08 a.m. http://gizmodo.com/5863778/the-math-that-saved-apollo-13

Re: OT: The Math That Saved Apollo 13 Just Sold for $388,375 Message #2 Posted by Don Shepherd on 1 Dec 2011, 12:27 p.m., in response to message #1 by Egan Ford That's fascinating Egan, thanks. But I wish this would have ended up at the Air and Space Museum instead of some private collection.

Re: OT: The Math That Saved Apollo 13 Just Sold for $388,375 Message #3 Posted by Dominic Richens on 1 Dec 2011, 3:46 p.m., in response to message #1 by Egan Ford good example of why kids need to stay in school and do well in math - you never know when you are going to be stuck in a crippled space craft hurtling away from earth and a manually calculated course correction is the only thing that can save you :-)

Re: OT: The Math That Saved Apollo 13 Just Sold for $388,375 Message #4 Posted by Eric Smith on 1 Dec 2011, 7:17 p.m., in response to message #3 by Dominic Richens Alas, I'm reasonably sure that I do know when that's going to happen to me, which is never.

Re: OT: The Math That Saved Apollo 13 Just Sold for $388,375 Message #5 Posted by Egan Ford on 1 Dec 2011, 8:02 p.m., in response to message #4 by Eric Smith Those that know you, know that you'd be just fine. And those that really know you, know that you'd just hack the ship, land, mine the moon for raw material, fix the craft, and still make it home in time.

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