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by tblomseth 3738 days ago
Arguably, that was THE critical issue for crew survival after the Apollo 13 incident leading to the famous 'jury-rigged' CO2 scrubbing device improvised by the engineers on the ground

'Availability of lithium hydroxide (LiOH) for removing carbon dioxide presented a serious problem.'[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_13#Crew_survival_and_re...
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yathern 3737 days ago
On an unrelated note - I read your term 'jury-rigged' and was thouroughly confused for a good minute. It sounded right in my head, but reading it on paper (screen) it looked wrong. Except looking up 'jury rigged' led to results about... Juries being rigged. Eventually I realized that the term I was looking for is 'Jerry Rigged':

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/jerry%E2%80%93rigg...

Which is 'probably a blend of jerry-built and jury-rigged', so now I don't know what to believe.

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codezero 3737 days ago
That's odd, the first two results for me when I search for jury rigged is a Google summary box with the definition and the Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jury_rigging

Are you studying law or something, maybe Google is overly personalizing? :)

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