Skeptics Guide #218 - Sep 23 2009
The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe
Dr. Steven Novella MD
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🗓️ 26 September 2009
⏱️ 80 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the Skeptic's Guide to the Universe. |
| 0:07.3 | Your escape to reality. |
| 0:12.2 | Hello and welcome to the Skeptic's Guide to the Universe. |
| 0:15.3 | Today is Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009, and this is your host, Steven Novella. |
| 0:21.2 | Joining me this week are Bob Novella. |
| 0:23.2 | Hey everybody, Rebecca Watson. |
| 0:25.0 | Hello everyone. |
| 0:26.4 | Jane Novella. |
| 0:27.4 | Hey guys, and Evan Bernstein. |
| 0:29.4 | Hello, 1999 NASA announced they lost contact with the Mars Climate Orbiter on this day. |
| 0:38.4 | Yeah, that was unfortunate. |
| 0:40.4 | Not a good day for this. |
| 0:41.4 | It was the old metric slash imperial mixup, you know. |
| 0:45.4 | Yeah. |
| 0:46.4 | Put in the coordinates or I hate when that happens. |
| 0:49.4 | What? |
| 0:50.4 | Oops. |
| 0:51.4 | Somebody got fired. |
| 0:52.4 | Well, it was kind of like this cascade of errors that were supposed to be cross checks and so |
| 0:56.4 | forth and just says here, according to the information, the navigation data provided by |
| 1:00.6 | the software they were using was not cross-checked while it was in flight and it was not |
| 1:05.0 | adequately tested before the launch and thus it drifted off course during its forage, entered |
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