Hi Said, Thanks for the correction. Now I recall... That's what happens when shooting from the hip without proper backup :-)
Didier KO4BB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > In a message dated 4/3/2007 19:29:25 Pacific Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > writes: > > An Arianne 5 rocket had to be destroyed with its cargo when it veered > off course because of a faulty conversion from English to metric in the > guidance software. What a bummer! > I hate it when that happens!!! > > > Hi Didier, > > actually unless there was a second explosion I don't know about, the first > Arianne-5 proto-rocket exploded due to a variable parameter overflow > (missing > saturation check) in a calculation. > > _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list time-nuts@febo.com https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts
