(June 19, 2014 at 11:46 am)Wyrd of Gawd Wrote: I wonder why it's not common practice to teach the math involved in going to the moon and back?
They do. It's called "Physics class".
(June 19, 2014 at 11:46 am)Wyrd of Gawd Wrote: But they never go into those things in space movies either or else we would know how spacemen plot their course to planets light years away.
That has less to do with security and more to do with Hollywood not wanting to bore the ignorant masses. Movies are not science or physics classes. If you're getting your science or math from movies, please go home and sit in a corner and rethink your life.