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To: EEGator

“There’s a reason that employee decorates cakes, and isn’t working on orbital mechanics”

GREAT POST. You made it simple for all to understand.

ps
Some years back we smoked a Mars probe due to errors in converting metrics to English measures. Perhaps the cake decorator did do orbital mechanics for NASA. :)


6 posted on 05/22/2018 3:30:20 PM PDT by cpdiii (cane cutter, deckhand, roughneck, geologist, pilot, pharmacist, THE CONSTITUTION IS WORTH DYING FOR!)
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To: cpdiii

I remember that probe crash quite well.

http://articles.latimes.com/1999/oct/01/news/mn-17288


8 posted on 05/22/2018 3:34:13 PM PDT by EEGator
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