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Anonymous Sun Dec 11 13:17:25 2016 No.8531771 [Reply] [Original]

hey sci. just saw a trailer for this movie and looked it up on wikipedia. its called Hidden Figures about some black women who were critical to getting us to the moon for were covered up because society wasn't ready for them.

why haven't they won the nobel prize or something? these women were literally human computers. HUMAN COMPUTERS. not even Einstein was that good at math and he invented e=mc2

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 11 13:17:59 2016 No.8531773 >>8531771 WE

Anonymous Sun Dec 11 13:22:38 2016 No.8531782

>>8531771
Being able to compute lots of shit at the same time doesn't make you intelligent, only smart. They have only applied things other people found out thus they could have never win the Nobel prize. But I wouldn't mind to be as fast as they were. Also: WE WUZ PHYSICISTS AND SHITZ

Anonymous Sun Dec 11 13:25:50 2016 No.8531785
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>>8531782
anon. these women made the calculations to get us into space and did it accurately. the nazis couldn't even aim a v-2 straight in world war.

they did this all without calculators. they were the calculators! And they weren't recognized at all. i know black education is bad now but what happened?! i can barely add multi digit numbers up in my head and these women were crunching numbers as far as space.

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 11 13:30:20 2016 No.8531795 >>8531773 come on. take that to /pol/. seriously, with such a lack of black scientists known about, why aren't we talking about the achievements of these three women?

>>	QWERTYUIOP !ouWMQKaTMk Sun Dec 11 13:36:32 2016 No.8531805 >>8531795 >>8531785 Cuck

Anonymous Sun Dec 11 13:40:02 2016 No.8531818

>>8531771
They were human computers but not mathematicians.

What you say is like me saying that wolframalpha.com deserves a fields medal.

You also claim that they were hidden but listen me boy, remember again that they were the computers.

If I ever publish an important paper in number theory and I just happened to use wolframalpha to compute the series or do some other calculations you better fucking believe I am not going to mention any of that shit in my paper.

I would say: I did the calculations all by hand with my superior IQ, I don't even know how to use computers lol. Computers are for brainlets.

So the same thing happened there.

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 11 13:40:13 2016 No.8531820 >>8531795 but we are. there making a movie about it

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 11 13:41:35 2016 No.8531823 File: 9 KB, 178x250, 1481285717127.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] WUZ

Anonymous Sun Dec 11 13:42:46 2016 No.8531827
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>>8531795
/pol/ here. I guess no one unironically gives a fuck to this. Who cares if backs accomplish something? Only retarded Americans that believe America should be a white country (because it never was. It's a country of immigrants). So I just like to watch them cry while I'm comfy on my European country with only 0.3% Muslims.

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 11 13:43:49 2016 No.8531830 >>8531785 See this >>8531818

Anonymous Sun Dec 11 13:44:29 2016 No.8531833
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>>8531795
This movie is not made to show their achievements, it's made as a political statement that muh black women saved us.

Pic related the real Katherine Johnson, not the sassy black thing they portrayed in the movie.

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 11 13:45:32 2016 No.8531835 >>8531833 Looks based. Nice digits btw.

Anonymous Sun Dec 11 13:47:09 2016 No.8531842
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God I know this is bait but I can't stop myself.

The equations for the Lunar missions were already known and simplified as best they could be by the (Fucking) white male scientists.

However, if any of you brainlets understood space mechanics you would know that the principal equations of motion do not have a closed for solution, therefore it is necessary to use numerical integration, linearization and approximation to find a numerical solution to these problems. Nowadays we use programs like MATLAB to solve this. The computer program can find the solution is seconds after running millions of calculations. In the 60's they didn't have MATLAB, but they did have slide rules, paper and black women, who were cheap cause you didn't need to pay them as much as a man or whity.

So basically the real scientist handed off the busy work to cheap labor. Yes they were important but they did not design the mission and did not do massive calculations in their head that the ebil whyte sycentists couldn't figure out.

Also, black? Really pic related
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katherine_Johnson

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 11 13:48:05 2016 No.8531847 File: 40 KB, 600x567, 1480270604516.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] KANGS

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 11 13:50:32 2016 No.8531853 >>8531842 >>8531833 Lol a blue eyed "black". The full blooded Negro actresses they hired would never be able to do even the Excel-tier work she did. MYTH BUSTED

Anonymous Sun Dec 11 14:01:04 2016 No.8531883

>>8531842
i kinda see where your coming from but how could they calculate the stuff if they didn't understand it? I'm not a math guy but isn't that just like steve jobs coming up with the idea for the ipad and telling others to go off and make it and then taking all the credit?

also there were darker women though and some women get ligher skin with age as you can see here>>8531833
vs >>8531842

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 11 14:02:45 2016 No.8531889 File: 63 KB, 1280x802, Michael-Ealy.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>8531853 >blue eyed black kill urself. pic related.

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 11 14:09:47 2016 No.8531907 >>8531889 Yeah, he's not black you moron. He's mixed race.

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 11 14:12:29 2016 No.8531911 >>8531907 >Michael-Ealy whatever those beside the point and it doesn't answer the question >>8531883

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 11 14:19:01 2016 No.8531927 These girls weren't even black in real life.

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 11 14:26:14 2016 No.8531943 >>8531795 shitskin

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 11 14:30:28 2016 No.8531952 File: 14 KB, 480x360, hqdefault.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >black Aight mate :^)

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 11 14:33:20 2016 No.8531964 >>8531827 They did not accomplish anything though. There were probably hundreds of more accomplished white workers at NASA at the time. This movie is just (((propaganda))) to make white people think it's ok to mix races with blacks.

Anonymous Sun Dec 11 14:33:26 2016 No.8531965

>>8531795
Because they made the calculations. The calculations
The calculations. The calculations.

Now, does that compare to the work of, y'know, actually deriving the needed equations from other systems and adjusting and monitoring everything in the actual trip?

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 11 15:23:12 2016 No.8532083 >>8531842 This. They were basically the equivalent of grad student slaves that do all the middling shit that the PIs couldn't be bothered by.

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 11 15:23:39 2016 No.8532086 /pol/ getting butt mad over a movie appreciating the role of blacks in NASA, and don't forget that the movie was made by jews. Jews > Asians > Whites, if /pol/ taught me anything.

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 11 15:26:03 2016 No.8532093 >>8531853 My grandmother is black all the way down and has blue eyes, Anon.

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 11 15:35:30 2016 No.8532118 >>8531964 Even if they did nobody should give a fuck. But it's sad their using this as propaganda for their leftist shit. And at least one of the girls is white.

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 11 16:08:06 2016 No.8532180 >>8532093 what about between her pussy lips?

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 11 16:21:59 2016 No.8532204 >>8531842 she has vertigo you fuck,,, just like michael jordan it turned her skin white and her eyes from brown to light hazel its a pigmy disorder

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 11 16:58:17 2016 No.8532283 >>8532204 Looks much better now m8. She was so smart her skin turned white.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 12 05:25:11 2016 No.8533686 >>8531771 >human computers You mean autistic

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 12 05:34:00 2016 No.8533693 >>8531883 Algorithms were originally intended for people. Give them a list of tedious steps and the numbers to use them on and they'd calculate the factorial of 1000

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 12 05:40:27 2016 No.8533701 black people aren't portrayed as crack smoking ape people in the popular media for a change it's literally anudda shoah

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 12 06:09:26 2016 No.8533725 >>8531771 Terrible. Practice some more.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 12 13:17:40 2016 No.8534172 WE

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 12 13:35:00 2016 No.8534204 I for one am alright with this movie, maybe it'll encourage more of the black youth to do something with their lives

Anonymous Mon Dec 12 13:46:12 2016 No.8534228

>>8531771
>>8531785
>Did they discover the formulae they were plugging?
No.
>Did they LITERALLY just plug values and calculate results?
Yes.
>Isn't that what a computer does nowadays?
Yes.
>TL;DR:
They aren't anything special, they were used as calculators.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 12 15:10:19 2016 No.8534423 >>8534172 WUZ

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 12 15:31:08 2016 No.8534480 >>8534423 COMPUTERS AND SHIEEEET

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 12 15:41:43 2016 No.8534498 >>8533725 This.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 12 15:58:26 2016 No.8534530 >>8531820 /thread

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