Group: sliderule Message: 40591 From: Steve Treadwell Date: 07/02/2011
Subject: sightings
Saw a slide rule in the movie "Voyager" (Sam Shepard, Julie Delpy, Barbara Sukowa - set in the 1950's) - about 10 minutes into the film as the plane, having lost 2 engines is going down in Mexico, Sam Shepard's character pulls out his slide rule and calculates where they will crash land. Just got a glimpse of it - maybe FC or Aristo?

And a mention of a SR in the Dallas Morning News today (reprinted from the Seattle Times) regarding the construction of a nuclear waste processing plant in Washington state.

<<"We figured out how to put a man on the moon in 10 years using slide rules," said Walt Tamosaitis, a high-level Hanford engineer who said he was removed from the project last year after raising safety concerns. "We still can't seem to get this right.">>