Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Mars probe (was Re: gm-cm to oz/inches conversion?)

It's very poor really, those things cost !SO MUCH! and they just crash them
into stuff and break them. In the hangers they have dust masks, static
suits, gloves air purifiers and all the likes and then expect these things
to survive hitting a piece of rock at 28,000mph when they get a sum wrong.
Why don't they just reinvest the money into this group and we could all get
those 10Hp mills I've heard talk of. We could make them ten satellites for
what they buy one day's worth of butties for at lunch I bet! Totally off
topic now: At NASA they actually have a department that sniffs every single
item, every battery, monitor, glove and pair of toe nail clippers that
embarks on journeys in the shuttle. It's to do with vapour in the air
cleaners I believe. Truely amazing... and my mum said there was no hope for
me (what with the keenest nose this side of the Atlantic).

Worried,
John

----- Original Message -----
From: <davemucha@...>
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Sent: Thursday, February 22, 2001 10:22 PM
Subject: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Mars probe (was Re: gm-cm to oz/inches
conversion?)


> I know that the last mars probe failed. The surface probes crashed
> or the Martians decided that we should not get data from them or
> something.
>
> The Mars probe before that was a flaming disaster. Seems NASA and
> all their wisdom, laid out the earth to Mars route in miles and then
> the final Mars orbit in meters. Seems the darn thing came up and
> landed short.
>
> It would have been neat to see it burn up in the atsmosphere.
>
>
>
> --- In CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@y..., <e.heritage@b...> wrote:
> > The probe you mean about wasn't actually meant to land on an
> asteroid it was
> > for some sort of observation task. Then when they didn't need it
> anymore
> > they thought that there was a chance it might survive landing on
> this
> > asteroid so they gave it a go just to see what happened. The one
> I'm talking
> > about was definitly not a success. I think the UK could use a
> launch pad,
> > we could put it right in the middle of Manchester (read cardboard
> city).
> > It'd proberly get stolen though before they could use it for
> anything.
> > : )
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Ian Wright" <Ian@i...>
> > To: <CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@y...>
> > Sent: Thursday, February 22, 2001 9:10 PM
> > Subject: Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Re: gm-cm to oz/inches conversion?
> >
> >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: <e.heritage@b...>
> > >
> > > > It's just as bad for me! All I ever use is metric so . Wasn't
> there some
> > > big mistake recently where a probe was given it's co-ordinates in
> imperial
> > > by one team and then metric by the other... darn conversions. I
> bet that
> > was
> > > embarrasing for them.
> > > > 'So... what's our 30 million dollars worth of probe found this
> week? I
> > > hope it's good, it'll be the only one we can afford to send this
> year.'
> > > > 'Well... erm... err... I sort of lost it sir.'
> > >
> > > I must admit to using metric more than anything else but I find
> anything
> > > other than grams and millimetres a bit hard to remember -
> especially, for
> > > some reason, those measurements which are named after a person!
> > >
> > > As to the space program, I heard that NASA has just landed a
> vehicle on an
> > > asteroid - so what were they really aiming for??? ;o)
> > >
> > > Ian
> > > --
> > > Ian W. Wright
> > > Sheffield UK
> > > www.iw63.freeserve.co.uk
> > >
> > >
> > >
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