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What major engineering blunders were result of faulty measurements?
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∙ 11y ago
- The Great Kersten Blunder. (Kersten was the programer that made the error). The Vigor space probe was sent towards Venus, but because of a computer programing error installed on it, a convertion from millimeters to inches was incorrect. It divided by 24.5 instead of 25.4. This error caused it to miss Venus completely and was sent hurling into space. Over 2 billion dollars of technology was lost because of one simple error.
- The Mars Climate Orbiter had a problem when trajectory programming teams from Europe and USA were working in two different measurement systems, imperial and metric. It missed the planet completely and was lost.
- Not exactly engineering but it was an aviation blunder. An Air Canada flight was fuelled in Toronto using pounds instead of liters of fuel. The pilot calculated how much he needed thinking he was getting his fuel in liters and eventually ran out of fuel near Winnipeg. He successfully landed the plane safely at a semi-abandoned WW2 airstrip at Gimli Manitoba.
- The Hubble Space Telescope or HST originally had an incorredtly ground mirror (Link below.)
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∙ 12y ago
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∙ 14y agosome major engineering blunders that were results of faulty measurements were that people had the wrong information,didnt know if it was right or wrong.
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∙ 11y agothe iffel tower is 6 inches shorter all because the construction bulider read the measurments wrong
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What problems could result from incorrectly converting measurements from one system to another?
blunders in technology
Which major engineering blunders throughout history were the result of faulty measurements?
I've not comfirmed these yet, but I have a feeling that there was a possibility of the Channel Tunnel, which was dug from each side toward the middle, not meeting properly at one point.Isn't there also something about the Space Shuttle booster rockets' O-rings and a mix up with metric and imperial units?And then there's the main reflector on the Hubble Space Telescope which was incorrectly ground and had to be subsequently corrected.And, of course, who could forget Spinal Tap's stage props for the song 'Stonehenge' being completely wrong? (Like I just did). Not exactly engineering though - see links.
What major engineering blunder were the result of faulty measurement?
So far, no one has identified any major errors that were the results of faulty measurement.Two common misconceptions are actually errors of a different sort -- the Mars Climate Orbiter and the Hubble Space Telescope.
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