[elektro-etc] win ?
Szali Sandor
szali.sandor at gmail.com
Sat May 29 14:07:03 CEST 2010
>> de nem ugy van az, hogy i have ?
>>> "Houston, I am the problem!"
Houston, WE have a problem
sot, eredetileg
Houston, we've had a problem
Meaning
Originally a genuine report of a life-threatening fault. Now used humorously
to report any kind of problem.
Origin
John Swigert, Jr. and James Lovell who, with Fred Haise Jr., made up the
crew of the US's Apollo 13 moon flight, launched on 11th April, 1970. They
used (almost) this phrase to report a major technical fault in the
electrical system of one of the Service Module's oxygen tanks back to their
Houston base.
Swigert: 'Okay, Houston, we've had a problem here.'
Duke: 'This is Houston. Say again please.'
Lovell: 'Houston, we've had a problem. We've had a main B bus undervolt.'
The phrase was used later as the tagline for the 1995 film - Apollo 13. It
is the dialogue of the film that is now best remembered, even though it
isn't what was said on the actual space flight:
Uh, this is Houston. Uh, say again, please?
Houston, we have a problem. We have a main bus B undervolt.
The phrase was used later still to report the health and addition problems
of the singer Whitney Houston in 2010.
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