![]() ![]() "Now back on Earth the safety engineers." "I'd rather design a giant tit," the guy in back said. Garcia said, "do you think the scientists at NASA had to use math to design this probe? And to communicate with it?" I imagined the probe, analyzing, computing, while the weight of Jupiter pressed in heavier and heavier. "Poor little probe," the girl next to me said. The probe sent back a stream of data for 57.6 minutes, until the incredible pressure of the Jovian atmosphere crushed it." ![]() ![]() "It looks like a giant tit," some guy said. Garcia said, "in 1995 NASA sent a probe from the Galileo spacecraft down through the atmosphere of Jupiter." The slide projector clunked to a picture of the probe. Garcia's "Why We Should Study Math" inspirational slide show. When I'd fallen asleep, there'd been a slide of a woman making cookies. "Sorry." I shook my head, trying to clear it out. Except what teacher in her right mind would turn out the lights and show slides at 1:30 in the afternoon? The room was almost dark, except for the light from the slide projector. The rest of the class, grinning like monkeys. Garcia, with her sad little worn-out smile. ![]() I opened my eyes, slowly, and there they all were, watching me. ![]()
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