[118562] in Cypherpunks
Re: Science Bloopers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eric Cordian)
Sat Oct 2 11:47:44 1999
From: Eric Cordian <emc@chao.insync.net>
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To: cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
Date: Sat, 2 Oct 1999 08:31:30 -0700 (PDT)
In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19991001214027.00ab0a80@flex.com> from "Reese" at Oct 01, 1999 09:40:27 PM
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Reese writes:
> 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.
I think that if one wished to construct a cover story, one would construct
one which would subject NASA to less ridicule.
According to accounts, Lockheed was telling JPL the thrust in pounds, and
JPL was entering the figures into a computer which assumed newtons when
doing calculations.
They actually had this screwed up during the entire mission, but it wasn't
until they needed to do the precision burn to enter orbit that the mistake
became apparent.
--
Eric Michael Cordian 0+
O:.T:.O:. Mathematical Munitions Division
"Do What Thou Wilt Shall Be The Whole Of The Law"
