[Elecraft] Klaatu

[Mike]

I *KNOW* it's science fiction when "entertaining" is used to describe mathematics... :-D

73, Mike NF4L

On 3/26/2011 10:47 PM, Kevin Rock wrote:
>      I watched the movie about a month ago.  The special effects hold up
> well and the story is interesting.  I remember the first time I saw it but
> viewing it again was fun.  I have always wondered about the damaged gift
> to the nations.  Oh, and the mass of equations on the professor's
> blackboard?  I stopped the movie on those frames and went through them.
> They were accurate descriptions of orbital mechanics.  I am always annoyed
> when math is flashed on a screen in a movie and it is incorrect.  I was
> pleasantly surprised when I worked through this blackboard's worth and
> found them accurate and entertaining.
>      73,
>         Kevin.  KD5ONS
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