Dear All,
Here is an interesting 'take' on the Mars Climate Orbiter disaster.
The worst blunder of all was with Mars Climate Orbiter, a spacecraft
launched in 1999 to improve our knowledge of the Martian surface.
During the approach manoeuvre, instructions were sent to it in Metric
units, blissfully regardless of the fact that it had been programmed
to work in Imperial. The result was predictable: Farewell, Climate
Orbiter. As I remember saying, this was yet another case of the evil
of creeping Metrication!
I found this at the 'American Monarchist' web site (http://monarchistamerican.blogspot.com/2008/08/sir-patrick-moore.html
) as a quotation from Sir Patrick Moore.
Cheers,
Pat Naughtin
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Geelong, Australia
Phone: 61 3 5241 2008
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