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travis_baker · Post by **travis_baker** » Thu Dec 20, 2012 1:39 pm

The root cause of NASA's 1999 loss of the US$125 million Mars Climate Orbiter which crashed into Mars was a mismatch of units - the spacecraft engineers calculated the thrust forces required for velocity changes using US customary units (lbf·s) whereas the team who built the thrusters were expecting a value in metric units (N·s) as per the agreed specifications

deadly_habit · Post by **deadly_habit** » Thu Dec 20, 2012 1:40 pm

And... ?

grillis · Post by **grillis** » Thu Dec 20, 2012 1:41 pm

my car gets forty rods to the hogshead and that's the way i likes it

travis_baker · Post by **travis_baker** » Thu Dec 20, 2012 1:42 pm

just saying mate

grillis · Post by **grillis** » Thu Dec 20, 2012 1:43 pm

not a good thread title really

travis_baker · Post by **travis_baker** » Thu Dec 20, 2012 1:47 pm

well it was improvised and has metaphorical values

magma · Post by **magma** » Thu Dec 20, 2012 1:47 pm

Didn't we all learn this in, erm, 1999 from, like... NASA themselves?

magma · Post by **magma** » Thu Dec 20, 2012 1:48 pm

travis baker wrote:well it was improvised and has metaphorical values

Is "americans" a metaphor for people from America?

That's pretty fucking next level linguistics right there.

travis_baker · Post by **travis_baker** » Thu Dec 20, 2012 1:51 pm

magma wrote:
travis baker wrote:well it was improvised and has metaphorical values
Is "americans" a metaphor for people from America?

That's pretty fucking next level linguistics right there.

haha alright!

LACE · Post by **LACE** » Thu Dec 20, 2012 1:52 pm

old news

Johnlenham · Post by **Johnlenham** » Thu Dec 20, 2012 1:54 pm

grillis wrote:my car gets forty rods to the hogshead and that's the way i likes it

nearly spat my coffee out

Hedley King · Post by **Hedley King** » Thu Dec 20, 2012 1:56 pm

They are the only ones that have ever got anyone on the moon though (although I guess others probably could if they wanted to spend on it).

China Vs USA space race to Mars in the 2020's?

travis_baker · Post by **travis_baker** » Thu Dec 20, 2012 1:57 pm

Hedley King wrote:They are the only ones that have ever got anyone on the moon though (although I guess others probably could if they wanted to spend on it).

China Vs USA space race to Mars in the 2020's?

u said the world ends 2018

Forum · Post by **Forum** » Thu Dec 20, 2012 2:01 pm

mIrReN · Post by **mIrReN** » Thu Dec 20, 2012 2:03 pm

LACE wrote:old news

news can't be old otherwise it wouldn't be called NEWs but OLDs

Hedley King · Post by **Hedley King** » Thu Dec 20, 2012 2:05 pm

travis baker wrote:
Hedley King wrote:They are the only ones that have ever got anyone on the moon though (although I guess others probably could if they wanted to spend on it).

China Vs USA space race to Mars in the 2020's?
u said the world ends 2018

I was saying that's what 2012 conspiracy types would be saying. I think we've got until 3.33 on 03/03/33, ancient macedonian mystic symbolism or something, triangles everywhere.

kidshuffle · Post by **kidshuffle** » Thu Dec 20, 2012 5:57 pm

grillis wrote:my car gets forty rods to the hogshead and that's the way i likes it

get outta here, grandpa

alphacat · Post by **alphacat** » Thu Dec 20, 2012 6:26 pm

Yes: because only Americans ever make mistakes in numerical conversions.

Whatever Bruce.

Hircine · Post by **Hircine** » Thu Dec 20, 2012 6:47 pm

I'm proudly accelerating 9.8 m/s²

ketamine · Post by **ketamine** » Thu Dec 20, 2012 7:05 pm

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