Error on road repair prolongs closure
The city made a classic engineering mistake, confusing imperial for metric, and ordered the wrong size for a huge iron trap door for repairs on Notre‑Dame East. So the street will remain partly closed until a new, properly specced door can be delivered.
Oh well. At least it wasn’t a space shuttle.
Some potato puns from the Sac de Chips.
BobR 11:33 on 2024-02-29 Permalink
No joke, but you know of course that in 1999, the Mars Climate Orbiter was lost, because of such a mis-match in the calculation of the force needed for its orbital insertion procedure (the result was given imperial units by ground software, and it was interpreted as metric units). The mission cost $327M.
Blork 11:38 on 2024-02-29 Permalink
And don’t forget the Gimli Glider! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gimli_Glider
walkerp 12:01 on 2024-02-29 Permalink
Shades of Spinal Tap