sofa king funny if true: can someone confirm?

[BrunoPuntzJones]

Not really a game question, so not in software

In the most recent CGW there was a quip about how NASA went from project design to actually having rovers on the surface of Mars, faster than 3D Realms has taken to develop Duke Nukem Forever.

I've tried searching about the rover stuff, but normally just get timelines about the mission launch/decent stuff.

Does anyone know when the project was originally started?

 

[RaiderJ]

Lol, but didn't NASA also get feet and meters confused?

 

[gotensan01]

Originally posted by: RaiderJ
Lol, but didn't NASA also get feet and meters confused?

You've got to be kidding me?!?! I'm going to call my friend who's interning at NASA to see what he knows. Prolly not much though because he is an intern .

 

[Heisenberg]

Originally posted by: RaiderJ
Lol, but didn't NASA also get feet and meters confused?

Sort of. One contractor assumed another contractor was working in metric when they were actually working in imperial units. Apparently no one bothered to check.

 

[dullard]

Originally posted by: gotensan01
You've got to be kidding me?!?!

Nope. "Meanwhile, a NASA review board has started investigating the spacecraft's loss, as well as the loss of a previous orbiter which fell out of contact just as it arrived at Mars in September. That mishap was attributed to human error and mismanagement, including a mismatch of metric and English units in navigation commands sent to the spacecraft."

I used this in my class as an example of why equations should NEVER be written without units. Or in the very least, make all equations dimensionless so there cannot be a simple dimension error.

 

[kyparrish]

screenshots....HAHAHAHAHAHAHA

 

[5ayle]

Originally posted by: kyparrish
screenshots....HAHAHAHAHAHAHA

wow this almost looks like CS lvl graphics

 

[Kibbo]

Originally posted by: dullard

Originally posted by: gotensan01
You've got to be kidding me?!?!

Nope. "Meanwhile, a NASA review board has started investigating the spacecraft's loss, as well as the loss of a previous orbiter which fell out of contact just as it arrived at Mars in September. That mishap was attributed to human error and mismanagement, including a mismatch of metric and English units in navigation commands sent to the spacecraft."

I used this in my class as an example of why equations should NEVER be written without units. Or in the very least, make all equations dimensionless so there cannot be a simple dimension error.

Conversely, maybe you yanks should just come into the modern world.

 

[gUEv]

i remember when those screenshots looked cool...
D:

 

[apac]

Originally posted by: Heisenberg

Originally posted by: RaiderJ
Lol, but didn't NASA also get feet and meters confused?

Sort of. One contractor assumed another contractor was working in metric when they were actually working in imperial units. Apparently no one bothered to check.

IIRC it was lbs and newtons, not meters and feet. Still hideously embarassing.

 

[Heisenberg]

Edit: n/m - I can't read.

 

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[jagec]

Originally posted by: Kibbo
Conversely, maybe you yanks should just come into the modern world.

As an engineering student, I agree. English units = sucky.