 | | Re: Hey you Yanks! Catch up with the "World's Mistake" —Bruce Schlickbernd
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| | | (...) Someone please correct me if I have this wrong, but I vaguely remember something about Thomas Jefferson being largely responsible for rejecting the metric system in this country - he had his own pet way of determing what should be a meter that (...) (22 years ago, 2-Dec-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | Re: Hey you Yanks! Catch up with the "World's Mistake" —David Koudys
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| | | | (...) I thought the Mars Observer had a different problem, as in the parts were built by different companies that didn't communicate clearly, and that the 'finished' product wasn't tested as a unit--the problem happened something like this-- the (...) (22 years ago, 2-Dec-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | | Re: Hey you Yanks! Catch up with the "World's Mistake" —Bruce Schlickbernd
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| | | | | (...) You are describing the same problem, not a different one. (...) As I recall, they simply lost contact. Looking around so we don't have to depend on faulty memory....aha: (URL) ya go! -->Bruce<-- (22 years ago, 2-Dec-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | | Re: Hey you Yanks! Catch up with the "World's Mistake" —Bruce Schlickbernd
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| | | | Too many failed Mars probes: it was the Mars Climate Orbiter that had the failed metric/english measurements. (URL) (22 years ago, 2-Dec-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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