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    • July 26, 2008

    Multiplication is hard…

    — srikanth @ 11:32 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1217115141 ) Play

    What connects these two accidents?

    Cracked by varuns88 , Atul Mathew , Goyal , gudanggurum , Rohan , Chandrakant Nair , rajeshvj , Dibyo and piezocake.

    Answer:

    1. The Gimli Glider, an Air Canada Flight – lost fuel and glided to a halt
    2. The Mars Climate Orbiter – Blew up somewhere over mars

    Both mixups happened because of errors in conversion between imperial and metric units :-)


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