But not furlong!
Jim
On Wed, 22 Nov 2000, Bill Potts wrote:
> 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]
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
> > Behalf Of James R. Frysinger
> > Sent: November 22, 2000 06:02
> > To: U.S. Metric Association
> > Subject: [USMA:9289] Another space disaster from unit confusion?
> >
> >
> > 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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> >
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