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
Re: americans
Posted: Thu Dec 20, 2012 1:40 pm
by deadly_habit
And... ?
Re: americans
Posted: Thu Dec 20, 2012 1:41 pm
by grillis
my car gets forty rods to the hogshead and that's the way i likes it
Re: americans
Posted: Thu Dec 20, 2012 1:42 pm
by travis_baker
just saying mate
Re: americans
Posted: Thu Dec 20, 2012 1:43 pm
by grillis
not a good thread title really
Re: americans
Posted: Thu Dec 20, 2012 1:47 pm
by travis_baker
well it was improvised and has metaphorical values
Re: americans
Posted: Thu Dec 20, 2012 1:47 pm
by magma
Didn't we all learn this in, erm, 1999 from, like... NASA themselves?
Re: americans
Posted: Thu Dec 20, 2012 1:48 pm
by magma
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.
Re: americans
Posted: Thu Dec 20, 2012 1:51 pm
by travis_baker
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!
Re: americans
Posted: Thu Dec 20, 2012 1:52 pm
by LACE
old news
Re: americans
Posted: Thu Dec 20, 2012 1:54 pm
by Johnlenham
grillis wrote:my car gets forty rods to the hogshead and that's the way i likes it
nearly spat my coffee out
Re: americans
Posted: Thu Dec 20, 2012 1:56 pm
by Hedley King
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?
Re: americans
Posted: Thu Dec 20, 2012 1:57 pm
by travis_baker
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
Re: americans
Posted: Thu Dec 20, 2012 2:01 pm
by Forum
Re: americans
Posted: Thu Dec 20, 2012 2:03 pm
by mIrReN
LACE wrote:old news
news can't be old otherwise it wouldn't be called NEWs but OLDs
Re: americans
Posted: Thu Dec 20, 2012 2:05 pm
by Hedley King
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.
Re: americans
Posted: Thu Dec 20, 2012 5:57 pm
by kidshuffle
grillis wrote:my car gets forty rods to the hogshead and that's the way i likes it
get outta here, grandpa
Re: americans
Posted: Thu Dec 20, 2012 6:26 pm
by alphacat
Yes: because only Americans ever make mistakes in numerical conversions.
