On Thursday, February 19, 2015 at 7:41:05 PM UTC-5, Dan Marotta wrote:
This is fun!



What was it caused NASA to miss the target on Mars?* Did some
programmer use metric when he should have used "the other system" or
vice versa?* (km vs miles or meters vs feet)




On 2/19/2015 4:30 PM,
wrote:



On Thursday, February 19, 2015 at 2:34:40 PM UTC-6, Tony wrote:


Two kinds of countries.

Those who went to the moon

Those who use Metric.

'murica


Tony,

Sorry to be pounding this topic (I'm actually off topic) but this made my day:
http://www.quora.com/Why-does-the-US...feet-and-miles
This makes sense. When shooting at the enemy (preferably from a safe distance) you want to make sure all parties to your 'coalition' use the same measurements.

Maybe 'Murica is getting religion after all!





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Dan Marotta

If it's what I'm thinking it is..... it's called, "Two different groups doing different programming".
One group was in USofA measurements, the other was metric.
The probe "thought" it was one height above ground when it was another height.
Thus..... "splat"......

"Ya don't know until you run the WHOLE program........"