Movie about black women math genuises coming

[xfundy]

Few know about the women who helped make the space program come to pass. Even fewer know they were black women.

http://www.businessinsider.com/katherine-johnson-hidden-figures-nasa-human-computers-2016-8

This is something to celebrate, IMO. For everyone. These women should be the ones we want to emulate. (Not me, I suck at math.) Still, I'm so glad this story is finally coming out.

[eppur_se_muova]

1. Saw a promo during the Olympics.

I think they actually paid for an ad (a pretty long one) and the movie was listed as an Olympic sponsor.

Oh, yeah, here we go ... http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/dominique-dawes-hidden-figures-trailer-release_us_57b20e2ce4b0718404124747

Nice to see Dominique Dawes again.

[xocet]

12. This might be an interesting video...

[Ilsa]

2. Good. I'll see it. My husband and sons will like it, too, I bet. NT

[xfundy]

4. Good to inspire the kids

This looks like a total feel-good inspirational film, hopefully one that will show girls (and boys) what's possible if they apply themselves.

I was raised to be a racist redneck but thankfully it didn't stick. I know there will be racists who will hate this, but fuck them.

[lapfog_1]

3. Definitely going to see this

When i worked at NASA, I would often sponsor a large group of engineers to take an afternoon off and go see the latest SciFi thriller (or Science Thriller)... Apollo 13, Men in Black, Independence Day...

I would buy a few dozen tickets ($5 for the afternoon matinee) and hand them out to everyone who could go.

It was good team building.

If I was still there (given that my group had some responsibility for changing Space Shuttle flight characteristics for the return to flight after Challenger) THIS movie would rate an "all hands" afternoon off to go see it. Get to see how it was done before and during the early computer age.

[xfundy]

5. Thanks for your work.

Important stuff! We may have to send Newt Gingrich to the moon one day.

[lapfog_1]

6. Maybe he'd like to be the first to explore the daylight side of Mercury

At the equator of course.

[xfundy]

8. The fat burning could create an alternate sun

It could throw the world out of balance, Keptin!

[eppur_se_muova]

9. ...

[Buckeye_Democrat]

7. Great!

[SusanCalvin]

10. I can't wait!

[nomorenomore08]

11. Great story, and I had no idea until recently.

All the more reason why these forgotten stories need to be told.

[happy feet]

13. Thank-you so much for posting

I had no idea and I'm quite versed in African American history. Thank-you so much. I will gladly spread the word.

[xfundy]

15. So much of AA history is blocked or ignored

[BlancheSplanchnik]

14. I'm excited!

Looking forward to it!

[Joe Chi Minh]

16. Good ! There are too many people who have a mistaken understanding of

our analytical intelligence, due to the different time-scales of the technological development of different continents and races. The fact of the countless high-achieving professionals from China, Africa and India, many currently working in the West shuld lay that misconception to rest.

The Mayan Indians were streets ahead of us in terms of their mathematics and astronomy, even independently devising the notation for zero as a mathematical concept, before the Arabs, who are believed to have received it from India. But, seemingly due to severe droughts and living patterns, lost interest in affairs of the intellect.

Those with a high analytical intelligence were given that, so that they would be able to help the more endemically spiritual, general public. Their intelligence, the unitive intelligence, which has a notably firmer grip on common sense, is of a higher order, and like Mary of Bethany's contemplative prayer, will not be taken away from her in the next life, while everyone in heaven will have full access to all the knowledge to which here on earth the analytical intelligence is ordered. So, it would be fair to say that the analytical intelligence is actually a degradation of the unitive, emotional and spiritual intelligence in the wrong person.

Given the right environment, like the Jews, the Africans and Afro-Saxons, have both in abundance. But the Jews are a strange category, all on their own, the 'remnant', at least, somehow managing to combine their spiritual grasp with a more than usual preoccupation with the materially-oriented analytical intelligence, to a significant degree.

[serbbral]

17. Wow!

Thanks for the link! I never knew! I must confess that I saw the preview of Taraji, but did not play much attention to what it was about.