[TheForge] YAK relativity- WAY OT, or not...

[Mike Linn]

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> 
> I remember before learning of this, having wondered about it more
> than once, but refraining from bringing it up because I didn't want
> to look like a dumbass.  My assumption was that because these were
> Great Brains(tm) that they knew what they were doing and that I was
> a dumbass for not knowing it.  It turned out they were  wrong-0 in
> assuming that so small a discrepancy in a value would not significantly
> affect the outcome of a calculation.  My only error was in assuming
> their infallibility, that they would not miss so obvious and basic
> a thing as this.  

Makes me wonder if some lowly NASA tech had the same thought process 
during the last mission to Mars.
1 inch = 25.4 mm   

> 
> 
> What a curious little universe we live in.

possibly one of many.....