Houston, we have a problem with the "Houston, we have a problem" quote.From the Apollo 13 Air-To-Ground Technical Voice Transcription,
SWIGERT (LMP): Okay, Houston--
LOVELL (CDR): I believe we’ve had a problem here.
CAPCOM (CC): This is Houston. Say again, please.
LOVELL: Houston, we’ve had a problem.
Frolic near the bank of the mighty Potomac River.
If last Saturday's O-O-Outcome has you down, here's some uplifting news:INCREDIBLE as it may seem, concrete can indeed be made to fly, as demonstrated by three Curtin University of Technology, Sarawak campus students.
The three final-year Civil and Construction Engineering students – Jasony James Padasian Ajuni, Ng Boon Yuh and Gan Tze Neng – not only made frisbees outof concrete, but also made them fly for distances of more than 35 metres at the Inter-varsity Concrete Frisbee Competition 2009 (ICFC 09) in Tronoh, Perak.
“Making frisbees out of concrete did not seem all that plausible at first, much less make them fly, but we did it, and we even came out tops in the competition,” said an elated Boon Yuh. He added that it took a fair amount of experimentation to get the frisbees just right and to perform as required, but it was well worth the effort.
In addition, their frisbee came in second in the weight test in which the lightest Frisbees scored the highest points, and made a good showing in the durability test where frisbees were dropped from a certain height and points awarded to frisbees with the highest retaining weight ratio after the test.
Other competition criteria included accuracy and poster presentation (?).
Their concrisbee pummels the (now) lame paperisbee.
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