Following on from earlier discussions regarding imperial, metric
etc.... Chris reminded me of this:
(CNN) -- NASA lost a $125 million Mars orbiter because a Lockheed
Martin engineering team used English units of measurement while the
agency's team used the more conventional metric system for a key
spacecraft operation, according to a review finding released Thursday.
(taken from CNN.com September 30th 1999)
Now if they can get it wrong.... what chance to we all have?!!
Sue in East Yorkshire
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