I guess when you have a mix up between a statute mile and a nautical mile,
you can very easily miss by a country mile.
(I read that one too.)
Bill Potts, CMS
San Jose, CA
http://metric1.org [SI Navigator]
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> Sent: November 22, 2000 06:02
> To: U.S. Metric Association
> Subject: [USMA:9289] Another space disaster from unit confusion?
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> On the Metrology Forum I subscribe to, a participant posted an allusion
> to an early Space Wars disaster during Reagan's term. Apparently, the
> ground controllers for the land-based laser used one kind of mile (or
> other unit of measurement) and the target satellite people used another
> kind of mile during one of the system's first tests, resulting in a wide
> "miss" by the laser beam. Does anyone recall or know anything about this
> alleged event?
>
> Jim
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