Comments on: The Day Apollo 13 Crashed Into The Earth. Or Something. https://gregladen.com/blog/2015/04/23/the-day-apollo-13-crashed-into-the-earth-or-something/ Sat, 25 Apr 2015 08:35:57 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.6 By: Astrostevo https://gregladen.com/blog/2015/04/23/the-day-apollo-13-crashed-into-the-earth-or-something/#comment-477071 Sat, 25 Apr 2015 08:35:57 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=21068#comment-477071 I love the Apollo 13 movie. Can’t imagine the teachers would cut it short like that and not say, skip some earlier bits or something. Just *facepalm* material there.

(Although I would’ve thought the students could do their own basic research easily enough as well! How did that movie end? Oh I know let’s wiki it ..)

@2. Dan Satterfield :

“The movie is indeed great, but someone needs to write a book about the first 6 hours after the accident.”

Have you read Lost Moon (aka Apollo 13) by Jim Lovell and Jeffrey Kluger by any chance? That’s at least one book I’ve read on it and would recommend.

@1. Tom Harris : ” why is it that the good news that we are almost certainly not headed for climate catastrophe not welcome?” Because its simply not true!

]]> By: Mmiller https://gregladen.com/blog/2015/04/23/the-day-apollo-13-crashed-into-the-earth-or-something/#comment-477070 Fri, 24 Apr 2015 22:30:59 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=21068#comment-477070 At my HS — central Cal mid-60s — the go to movie was “On the Waterfront”.

“I coulda been a contenda.”

;^)

]]> By: dean https://gregladen.com/blog/2015/04/23/the-day-apollo-13-crashed-into-the-earth-or-something/#comment-477069 Fri, 24 Apr 2015 19:52:54 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=21068#comment-477069 Why is it the most egregious of ignorant climate cranks always tosses al gore into the mix with the implication that he was ever a scientist, or that anyone who understands sciences looks to him.

Oh yeah – the cranks do it because they have nothing of substance to offer.

]]> By: Tom Harris https://gregladen.com/blog/2015/04/23/the-day-apollo-13-crashed-into-the-earth-or-something/#comment-477068 Fri, 24 Apr 2015 19:16:57 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=21068#comment-477068 Dan Andrews: everything you mention can be applied to climate alarmists as well. Do you really trust James Hansen, Al Gore, David Suzuki and Rajendra Kumar Pachauri?

]]> By: Apollo 13 | Transterrestrial Musings https://gregladen.com/blog/2015/04/23/the-day-apollo-13-crashed-into-the-earth-or-something/#comment-477067 Fri, 24 Apr 2015 17:29:09 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=21068#comment-477067 […] The day it crashed into the earth, or something. […]

]]> By: Art https://gregladen.com/blog/2015/04/23/the-day-apollo-13-crashed-into-the-earth-or-something/#comment-477066 Fri, 24 Apr 2015 16:10:56 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=21068#comment-477066 Getting older I find that increasingly I see the beginning and end of movies and nap through the middle. It is kind of odd to be introduced to characters and then see a happy ending. Missing the drama in the middle makes even the most serious film into something of a fairy tale.

]]> By: dean https://gregladen.com/blog/2015/04/23/the-day-apollo-13-crashed-into-the-earth-or-something/#comment-477065 Fri, 24 Apr 2015 14:36:06 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=21068#comment-477065 I do wonder how coverage of an Apollo 13 type incident would be handled today. It is very easy to believe much of it would be partially filled with “what do you expect, government agencies screw up everything they touch” and “they knew the job was dangerous, we shouldn’t be wasting the money to help them” type dialogs from the tea baggers.

]]> By: dean https://gregladen.com/blog/2015/04/23/the-day-apollo-13-crashed-into-the-earth-or-something/#comment-477064 Fri, 24 Apr 2015 13:57:53 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=21068#comment-477064 Tom, maybe it’s because of one of two things:
– you don’t know what you’re talking about, or
-you are flat out lying

]]> By: Greg Laden https://gregladen.com/blog/2015/04/23/the-day-apollo-13-crashed-into-the-earth-or-something/#comment-477063 Fri, 24 Apr 2015 13:56:25 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=21068#comment-477063 Tom, were are already starting to experience our climate catastrophe. So, no.

]]> By: Greg Laden https://gregladen.com/blog/2015/04/23/the-day-apollo-13-crashed-into-the-earth-or-something/#comment-477062 Fri, 24 Apr 2015 13:54:05 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=21068#comment-477062 Dan you should write the book!

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