[118557] in Cypherpunks
Re: Science Bloopers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Reese)
Sat Oct 2 03:57:33 1999
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Date: Fri, 01 Oct 1999 21:40:27 -1000
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From: Reese <reeza@flex.com>
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At 12:22 PM 9/30/99 -0700, Eric Cordian wrote:
>Two items of note from today's news.
>
>Second, the cause of the destruction of the $125 million Mars Orbiter has
>been determined. Two crews, one at JPL, and the other at Lockheed Martin,
>during the period when commands were being sent to the craft to achieve
>orbit around Mars, were unaware that one team was using English units, and
>the other was using metric units, when communicating with each other.
>Oops. :)
I think this is bullshit, a cover story. they've been doing this sort of
thing for far too long to have slipped up on such a simple thing at this
point.
Anyone have data on _all_ the red planet probes and orbiters that have been
lost? not only ours, but russias (and anyone elses) as well?
R.
