Crap I Like

I like heroic engineering.

Danielle Bear and I have been watching a series called "When We Left Earth" about the space program. We got the the part about the successful failure of the Apollo 13 mission and so we took a break and watched the movie, which I hadn't seen since it came out, in 1995 I think. Anyways, the second half of the film is a series of improvised engineering feats to save the astronauts' lives with unbelievable time and materials margins. The best example is when a team of engineers has to build a filter to remove carbon dioxide from the ship before the astronauts are poisoned, using only scrap materials that they know are on the ship (a sock, for instance). Anyways, here is the famous let's build a filter scene...