Fun fact: these engineers actually did this all before Apollo 13 ever took off. This procedure was developed before the launch as an emergency fix for this issue with the filters not matching

A very good friend of mine's father was one of the engineers in the room. I had a chance to talk to him before he died, There is so much more tho this story. Art Hinners, RIP. He also holds the patent for a couple items used in the Apollo space capsules. If memory serves, one was the deceleration "crush" framework used behind the seats to minimize landing impact.

While the engineers that solved the problem should be commended for their creativity, the tech debt was created many years prior and was a design inconsistency flaw that should have been addressed beforehand. If you have the opportunity to do it right the first time, you should!

Just before these scenes, the Command Capsule pilot (forget the man''s name) was arguing about the CO2 level. This video cut the part where the LM pilot realized that out of habit he was computing the expected CO2 levels for only two people in the LM. The CM pilot gave the LM pilot a look and said "Maybe I should hold my breath." LOL!!

2:06 When you get two simultaneous pats on the back, that's when you know you've done a really good job

I worked with a guy that was a supervisor at an ADM plant. He told me about having an intern that was an engineering student working for the summer. He turned the student loose bolting down the head on a steam pressure vessel and said he'd check back in an hour. When he came back, he saw the student hammering on something and he'd hardly made any progress. When he asked what was going on the student told him "These washers were bent-so I'm hammering them flat." The 'bent' washers were lock washers!

"Well I hope you have the processdures for me" My man, we're engineers, of course we made instructions

The things you can do with a room filled with very motivated geniuses.

As to the problem of non-compatible filters, this sort of issue is epidemic in industry. In a major automotive plant about fifteen years ago, we had a two-part process where one series of machines fed another series of machines to produce a single product. The two groups of machines had been designed by two different engineering teams that apparently never talked to each other. The two groups had no common parts. None. Switches, valves, relays. motor drive systems, circuit breakers, pressure sensors, photo-eyes, and even the latches on the control cabinets. NOTHING was common, or interchangeable. Oh, and NONE of these parts were compatible with any other system we had in the plant. It was insane. Everything was brought in, dropped on the floor, and then skilled trades was told to "make it work". Lucky for the company, skilled trades has decades of experience doing the impossible. We eventually, with the help of a lot of overtime, made it work. Management got a big 'Attaboy' and the engineering teams got nice plaques, and none of them learned anything, since the next system that was brought in had exactly the same problems.

I feel this way everytime i have to make a bong from household items.

I wish the video was more descriptive and educational rather than a movie clip I could find anywhere. That would include laymen like myself into the points you’re trying to make

Let's hear it for the engineers, they often don't get enough credit for what they do for us all.

The true is actually more impressive. It was actually 1 guy and a parts list that designed it. The pressure the guy must have been under must have been incomprehensible.

Love the three-axis orientation of the astronauts, reinforcing that there is no preferred reference frame in space, and onboard artificial gravity wasn’t a thing back then (also saved space).

0:32 that's what she said

Isn't using a tube the most obvious solution if you want to connect two things that don't fit together initially?

I'm not sure that's what lateral thinking is.

Their year end bonus is a shiny trophy

ive watched this movie 100+ times growing up. one of my favorite sequences is this scenenario.

My favorite scene from this film.

This is a beautiful example of the mindset that keeps the U.S Navy combat ready.

One of the greatest moments in this film

And its now in the manual onboard on how to build this

Now, I want to find a movie clip and claim that it's what I do all the time, too. I'll watch _Yojimbo_ to get some ideas.

Holy shit!!!!! Nice slideshow! One frame for every astronaut!

First Tom Hanks movie I remember watching as a kid, such a classic!

I worked for a guy who brought down Romanian Dictator Nicolae Causescau with nothing more than a post-it note and an almond croissant. That’s lateral thinking.

I always remembered that scene.

The stupidest scene in the movie when you know that jim lowell himself was part of the team that had found the solution months before

I've worked with engineers, especially computer sci/programmer types. They don't like writing instructions and it does not really matter, written or verbal, they ALWAYS skip steps (multiple) because they presume that everyone will fill in the gaps with the same knowledge or assumptions. Emphasis on the word ALWAYS!

Note to self: Bring duct tape with you to everywhere you wanna be.

Peak engineering right there.

Wasn't this actually transverse diagonal contralateral thinking?

bill paxton was the actor you didnt know was in a lot of movies you've seen but only actually realise its him after you watch it again years later. i will fight anyone to the death who wishes to challenge me on this. come at me bro. do it do it

This is one of my favourite scenes in this film. Here's to the steely eyed missile men.

Ed Harris does things to my brain.

great scene. but when I was a kid I didn't get it. I thought they literally had to make that square fit into a circle hole that was smaller than it

He makes me want to have a combover!

I need an avacado, ice pick and a snorkel. Trust me

The best engineering solutions come from limitations and constrains.

Oh! So just a segment of the film. I thought someone was going to tell me a bit about how they did it.

i think this is more of an example of a scene from a movie.

Jim on the left side of the thumbnail and Dwight on the right

I encountered one situation similar to this in my own career as a nuclear instrument technician. We came within minutes of having to shut down one of our reactors. Slightly different as it would have just cost money and not lives…but at the time it felt a lot like this as we wrangled over prints trying to find a solution the problem and came within 14 minutes of a forced reactor shutdown.

When I see one of these movies the first thing I think of is where do these little minion guys get those uniforms? Does NASA have a dress code? Do they get provided those? Was that fashionable in the day? Lmao

John Glenn looked worried

Good job take a comp day.

Couldn't use lateral thinking to create your own visuals for your ad?

Well impossible is so vague

Never saw this movie. Friggin all star cast.

Is nobody going to mention the fact that this company is using a MOVIE (whose name they censored) to promote themselves?

Always amuses me to see engineers getting big Attaboy's for occasionally doing the kind of things that skilled trades professionals have to do almost daily. The public has no idea how often trades will look at a blueprint, laugh, and then do what we know is both right, and will work. We even sometimes tell the engineers later, so that they can modify the print to match what got done. You'd be surprised how often engineers are so concerned with impressing people with how brilliant that they are, that they forget that the goal is that what they are designing is expected to WORK.

Being dyslexic helps !

Funny thing is only 1 guy did that.. But the film makers didn't think it was gd enough for the movie so they made a team.

A tube, some plastic and duct tape. Inspired genius. 😂

I've dealt with plenty of engineers in my life, then I retired! Early!

So many great actors in this scene, and all before they really hit their peak.

I thought lateral thinking was tossing the problem back to someone else.

this is from a movie

Where was Literal Thinking applied?

Also always remember, there's is no 'Box' to stay withiin.

Lateral thinking without contingency plans...

Duct tape and bailing wire can fix anything!

What is lateral thinking ?

Good ole yankee ingenuity

It would be impressive if it actually happened.

This is a movie

Good old fashioned brain power. Where did it go? 😢

Someone gave me a Dremel tool for free 2 weeks ago because they bought it on the idea it had speed control But did not. Today I bought a dimmer switch And broke down a old plug And off $8 have the same $80 dremel he went out and bought

If its too stupid to work, then its to stupid to fail.

They don't make movies like this anymore. People don't work together in teams like that anymore.

Example of lateral thinking? You skipped all the thinking. Went straight from problem to solution. What good was this?

No clue how they fixed it

Everyone describes this as the engineers were super smart but the only thing they had to do is make a fucking adapter for a vent hole. ill bet that if you give a group of 15 year old the same dilemma you also get this adapter made....

It’s a movie. It isn’t real. The story may have been based on real incidents, but was modified by screenwriters.

This is what separates America from the rest of the countries

Duck tape

why did they design 2 incompatible systems in the first place.. thats just stupid

Actually, this procedure existed prior to launch. They added this to the movie for drama, but it didn't happen in real life.

Bullshit! I have an Arts degree and there's nothing a sledge hammer won't fix. Best part is all my engineering colleagues agree with me.

Help sir. Please. Here's what's going on your free writer lateral thinkes. Saying "people are going to do what people are going to to. That is trap math. Continues . . Negligence is harmful. Most people are only doing what they want, & what to please & impress, or for who in their peer group or range, 'not wanting to be bothered'. Doing & solving what we want, well, most people I think won't try or haven't the spare hand to help end this suffering. When a child is torn from their mother inhumanely, there may be some understand person she may grieve to. A card or something of 'sorry for your loss'. This is a life of torture, loneliess, never complete happiness, on & on, & usually, if anyone says anything to me, it's never comforting. They try to sound mature & confident as they say "she'll come back. A child has one mother. She'll grow up. Kids these days. Give her time. You should try to reach out". Yes with all the lack of love on the one hand, & the lack of support on the other, & 1 family member who cares about me, it is generally a thought a considered thing to suggest to me to keep being a friendly, helpful mum, tolerant of pain she could cause me. It seems to me she hates me. The last thing she said to me was she hates me. She wants sympathy sympathy sympathy and through things I've never meant as rude or nasty. She chose them, like chose Candace & other people.. like if they were worthwhile people then I was worth letting die alone to live as a writer & not ever ever feel ok. What if I wait all my life, never reprieved & never anyone knowing I wasn't what she's disguised me as, for what purpose I don't know. I need her to tell the person/people that what she'd said to make such strong point that no one should cherish or care about me or question what she says about me so to take 'her side' for her having taken 'their side', in lieu of my ever being ok, that she doesn't hate me, & doesn't even not love me. Maybe she needed years & years to let off steam. The older she gets, the longest she says what she says, she won't be able to say she'd been letting off steam for anguish we'd caused her. Every parent has caused their child to feel anguish at times. She's never nice to me. Never contacts me. Her hatred grows & doesn't stop growing. I stay away, & it gets worse. If I talk to her it gets worse. If I plead & cry, I'm called "that person". I don't like that Jake doesn't care she's so relentlessly keeping me dead to her & her world. When he's a father, is he going to play their children against me so long as she never take back a thing she's said, or says anything nice? "She gets massacred because she gets massacred" is trap math. This free writer lateral thinker hasn't the money for the hardcore writers tech I need, so, this free writer lateral thinker hasn't the money for the writers tech I need. A free writer lateral thinker, dealing with the backlog of problems people not want to look at to need to solve, need best writers tech, free. Money hasn't anything to do with that tech is meant for this type of writer, & tech folk not having provisioned it for us. Money keeps getting used in the reason why I not have hardcore tech, & money's also being used as the means procuring such equipment. We write for free, because people who are brought shouldn't write about issues concerning all society. Money corrupts, &, maths is fraudulent. How is it there's no one developing tech equipment to enable free writers to be more productive, if they were really good at math. Why can't they work out that the more people agreed with too much buying people with items & wages & the solving of problems they want to solve wanting to 'call shots', the lower the shock threshold for truth that hurts of the collective, the riskier it is to be a free writer who sometimes writing things that may confront or irrationally concern people & the less people become writers, the more, & faster, & quicker & better who remains of free writer lateral thinkers need to write? Math is a tool to advantage over who not do it so well, only revealing so much as to help their cause/s. People only feel responsible for hurting people for having done something to hurt them, but if it hurts us when they do nothing, no one acknowledges how their neglect's cost a person. It doesn't only cost us to neglect us, but we also look like who in the crowd people kick to get to kick again. It's a "they get kicked because they get kicked" life for who gets kicked. It's like cursing someone to hell, & not a word is uttered in acknowledgement about this. It feels like slow murder when math folk not admit they treasure their own lives & fortunes they won't stop the trap math. It's like the daughter that always crushes the mother to keep the identity in tact. Will you do this all someone's life? I feel buried already, but it's because that's where you want me, not because I feel dead because there's something wrong with me. It's like being eaten alive like a monkey with its head cut open. People seem to need a "who to kick to kick", & they won't stop. Math may be real, but math folk are the biggest liars of all people in regard to lying by omission & the very intentionally 'accidentally' lowering prospects of others survival. I haven't met one person with the means. They keep quieter than moths on sunny days, acting like they're not a part of this world. If they're not, then, what are they doing with currency which is for people of the world to use to solve problems. The maths person is like a hole in a bucket, or a fork in the back keeping us weak. It's trap math that who use math to make things for money be expected to apply their math knowledge to the betterment of society. "They do the math so they'll be doing the math" looks like the 'widely agreed with' logic written on free writer lateral thinkers & philosophers headstones. Money means nothing but fun issuing suffering, contemptuous for that you share the world with the rest of us. ..When you 'syphon' the money, & lean on people & exacerbate their problems which your trap math excuses you from solving, whilst solve problems you want which you place on the problem pile yourselves to prosper, well "their having the money & getting to pick the problems to solve people should spend money on ..doesn't make sense anymore. Math folk aren't just using math so get to pick the problems. They're using real math & creating a whole lot of backlog of problems ..which there aren't free writer lateral thinkers provisioned the free tech we need to keep up with it. They're like my daughter the math man. They want me to die, utterly, & to push down & down until I do. If maths folk really did math, they'd know it's wrong to think they're the only ones shutting doors on the people they shut doors on. They act like they don't know they're not the only one doing it. For all tech society to be such snobs is callous & sadistic gang thuggery. It's greedy, & it creates & reinforces helplessness of the people who's problems to solve go on & on burried.😮

This slideshow is an example of nothing. There is no deep dive. They skip the actual brainstorming. What's the point of this video's premise other than uploading a scene from a movie?

lateral thinking? really? this?

They were real problem-solving engineers. They were better than current new engineers in many way. I understand that there are many technical aspects and variation to consider today's engineering than 60s However it is still engineer duty . If can you cannot take, like some people in Twitter, you better find other positions.

Here's an idea, why didn't they put on there space suit to keep warm and save oxygen....

A Hollywood hoax That guy looked like Jared polis

The only memorable part of the movie.

I object to this video as there were no female, trans, lgbqrstuv..., Black Asian, obese, feminist actors in that clip. Thankfully movies like this and solutions like this would never happen today, and those astronauts would have died, but that's a small price to pay for diversity.

imagine if they were all women lmao

What is this low fps game called

Fake

They just don't make films like this anymore