"Houston, we have a problem."

We've all heard it a thousand times - in the news, in conversations as a sort of cliche, and even on ads for the movie Apollo 13. IT'S A MISQUOTE! ALSJ shows no such comment from the crew during the flight. Here is the relevant section of the transcript:

55:52:58 - CapCom: "13, we've got one more item for you, when you get a chance. We'd like you to stir up your cryo tanks. In addition, I have shaft and trunnion..."
55:53:06 - Swigert: "Okay." (over CapCom)
55:53:07 - CapCom: "...for looking at comet (J. C.) Bennett (19691), if you need it."
55:53:12 - Swigert: "Okay. Stand by."
55:55:20 (9:07 PM CT) - Swigert: "Okay, Houston, we've had a problem here."
55:55:28 - CapCom: "This is Houston. Say again please."
55:55:35 - Lovell: "Ah, Houston, we've had a problem. (pause) We've had a main B bus undervolt."
55:55:42 - CapCom (Jack Lousma): "Roger. Main B undervolt. Okay stand by 13, we're looking at it."

See? It's a misquote! That's always annoyed me, just thought I'd point it out. :wink:

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"Too low they build, who build beneath the stars". - Edward Young, 1745

Elementary my dear Watson.


Actually about 80% of all well known quotes are misquoted. So frankly my Dear, I don't give a darn.

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Howling from the Shadows

It must be fun to lead a life completely unburdened by reality. --- JayUtah

You can't reason an irrational person out of an irrational belief. --- Noclevername

Apollo: The History and the Hoax
Enter the World of Athran

Say it a gain, Wolf

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Living on Earth may be expensive, but it includes an annual free trip around the Sun.

Beam me up, Scotty!

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Everything I need to know I learned through Googling.

"Frankly my dear, I'm going to build a dam".
Dick Martin

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Any day you wake up on "the right side of the dirt" is a good day.

T. Anderson

Yeah. I kind of like it. It means we can feel good about ourselves because we know that everyone thinks wrong about things.

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[Nitpick]
Holmes NEVER said that (at least in in the Conan Doyle Novels)
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Sic Transit Gloria Mundi

Yeah. I'm pretty sure this got started in those awful movies with Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce. #-o

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--Doug

"When your statics problem becomes a dynamics problem, you're in trouble." --me

Moor's Law: "As you go from freshman engineering to Ph.D., the amount of work required per credit hour doubles approximately every 18 months." --me, inspired by Prof. Scott Moor

Wasn't that the point? This is about misquotes right?

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The question isn't "what are we gonna do", the question is "what aren't we going to do."

I AM A GOLDEN GOD- Robert Plant, Led Zeppelin

You did read the rest of it? Right????? :roll: :P

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Howling from the Shadows

It must be fun to lead a life completely unburdened by reality. --- JayUtah

You can't reason an irrational person out of an irrational belief. --- Noclevername

Apollo: The History and the Hoax
Enter the World of Athran

I'm afraid I don't understand the point you're trying to make here, Master.

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--Doug

"When your statics problem becomes a dynamics problem, you're in trouble." --me

Moor's Law: "As you go from freshman engineering to Ph.D., the amount of work required per credit hour doubles approximately every 18 months." --me, inspired by Prof. Scott Moor

Okay, I think I get it now--you were commenting that an earlier poster missed the point that it was supposed to be a misquote. I'll admit that I didn't pick up the earlier poster's mistake when I read the post I was quoting--guess I got too excited about having an opportunity to knock a dreadful Sherlock Holmes adaptation. ops: However, your point would have been clearer if you'd followed up to the earlier post, and not to mine.

As a side note, I'm not sure that this qualifies as a misquote--I think it qualifies as a completely bogus quote, as SH never says anything remotely like it in any of Doyle's stories.

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--Doug

"When your statics problem becomes a dynamics problem, you're in trouble." --me

Moor's Law: "As you go from freshman engineering to Ph.D., the amount of work required per credit hour doubles approximately every 18 months." --me, inspired by Prof. Scott Moor

I don't ever recall him ever saying "The Game Is Afoot" either. Darn movies inserting stereotypes in our favourite characters.

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Isn't the fact that they don't visit us proof that intelligent life is out there?

The Confused Philosopher - RCAF

I believe he says something like "Watson, the answer was elementary." But I'd have to check it out agin to be totally sure.

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Howling from the Shadows

It must be fun to lead a life completely unburdened by reality. --- JayUtah

You can't reason an irrational person out of an irrational belief. --- Noclevername

Apollo: The History and the Hoax
Enter the World of Athran

"Alas. Poor Yoric. I knew him well." <---- wrong!

"Alas. Poor Yoric. I knew him, horatio." <----- correct! (or pretty darn near anyways, since I'm too lazy to google the quote to make sure).

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. . . My moustache is touching my brain!!!!

Another frequent misquote is the line from Casablanca, which IIRC is "play it Sam" and not the oft quoted "play it again Sam".

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