Posted Monday 24th March 2008 14:56 GMT
Well my favorite blunder is the Mar Climate orbiter where on set of instructions programed were in English and the other in Metric causing the loss of the spacecraft. With the money quote "People sometimes make errors," said Dr. Edward Weiler, NASA's Associate Administrator for Space Science, there in no patch for stupid.
Posted Monday 24th March 2008 14:59 GMT
"This report traces the history of some major software projects and identifies the flaws that led to their failure. Could things have been done differently...?"
http://www.scism.lsbu.ac.uk/inmandw//past/9697/projects/prj127.html
Posted Tuesday 25th March 2008 19:51 GMT
True. I really wonder why any scientist worth its salt would use anything other than the metric system, though...
Posted Tuesday 25th March 2008 19:51 GMT
I did a quick search and found this which I used to colour the above article..some good stuff in here: http://infotech.fanshawec.ca/gsantor/Computing/FamousBugs.htm
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