From: "Gary Wiltshire" 

On Mon, 29 Nov 2004 18:32:55 +0200, Antti Kurenniemi
 wrote:

> "Geo"  wrote in message
news:41ab0388{at}w3.nls.net...
>>> 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?
>
>
Not a shuttle.  It was a Mars probe.

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Gary Wiltshire

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