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    Three brilliant women defeated all odds and helped the white NASA men with the Apollo project.

    Awesome movie.

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    Calculator was a common job in the aerospace industry up through the end of the 60's. A Calculator was a person that solved the math for equations submitted by engineers and scientists using a slide rule, etc. Many Calculators were women with degrees in fields like mathematics that couldn't get other employment due to their gender.
    The job has since been made obsolete by scientific calculators and computers.

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    Quote Originally Posted by T. A. Gardner View Post
    Calculator was a common job in the aerospace industry up through the end of the 60's. A Calculator was a person that solved the math for equations submitted by engineers and scientists using a slide rule, etc. Many Calculators were women with degrees in fields like mathematics that couldn't get other employment due to their gender.
    The job has since been made obsolete by scientific calculators and computers.
    Listen: NASA is one of the proofs that "Systemic Racism" and "White People are SHIT" are lies.

    I see far too few people calling out the lies.

    Calling things what they are is mandatory.

    Prepare for HELL!
    I choose my own words like the Americans of olden times........before this dystopia arrived.

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    Quote Originally Posted by T. A. Gardner View Post
    Calculator was a common job in the aerospace industry up through the end of the 60's. A Calculator was a person that solved the math for equations submitted by engineers and scientists using a slide rule, etc. Many Calculators were women with degrees in fields like mathematics that couldn't get other employment due to their gender.
    The job has since been made obsolete by scientific calculators and computers.
    What are you trying to say?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Gin Saké View Post
    I'm glad I never had to deal with a slide rule.
    WHY?
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    Quote Originally Posted by AProudLefty View Post
    What are you trying to say?
    What are you good for?
    I choose my own words like the Americans of olden times........before this dystopia arrived.

    DARK AGES SUCK!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Gin Saké View Post
    Because a scientific calculator is less of a bitch to operate.
    I dont know what you are trying to say but I am here to tell you that almost to the man no one ever regretted giving up the slide rule for the calculator.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Gin Saké View Post
    He's saying technology made their jobs obsolete. Hell, my grandfather was a typist for the Seattle Times. Technology made his old job obsolete, and is attempting to make print news altogether obsolete.
    It pretty much is.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Gin Saké View Post
    He's saying technology made their jobs obsolete. Hell, my grandfather was a typist for the Seattle Times. Technology made his old job obsolete, and is attempting to make print news altogether obsolete.
    Yeah but what does it have to do with anything? This is about black women beating the odds.

    Being a black woman is way worse than being a white woman.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Gin Saké View Post
    HEY! Cancel your post!!!!

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