From: "Robert Comer" 

> Wasn't there a shuttle crash / explosion due to unit conversions a few
> years back?

No, that was a Mars probe.

- Bob Comer


"Antti Kurenniemi"  wrote in
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> "Geo"  wrote in message
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>>> I think your short ton derives from the fact that you thought a
>>> hundredweight was 100 pounds.
>>
>> I wonder how much it's obscured things in science because units
>> like these don't make sense?
>
> Wasn't there a shuttle crash / explosion due to unit conversions a few
> years back?
>
>
> Antti Kurenniemi
> ("oh you meant US tons, not UK...")
>
>

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