Reply to post: Re: Fahrenheit

Blast-off! Boat free launch at last. Orion heads for space

AIBailey

Re: Fahrenheit

"I thought one of their Mars probe failures was down to one team interpreting "m" as miles and another as metres leading to descent boosters being fired at the wrong time."

Are you sure you're not getting the Mars probe confused with Jimbo? :)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimbo_and_the_Jet_Set

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