[Magnum44]

‘Color me’ skeptical is right. History is being rewritten to make certain folks feel good about themselves. I think this is just more of that.

[Albion Wilde]

Both of you need to see the 2016 film, Hidden Figures, based on the real life story of the black women mathemeticians who, back in the early 1960s, helped NASA send a man into space.

They had to know their stuff, because it was before electronic calculators and computers. They made many of their calculations with slide rules, a huge blackboard (or whiteboard) and a ladder.

Pictures and descriptions of the main characters are at the link -- scroll down.

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would it even have mede the news if they were not black?