<div dir="ltr"><div>Some things never change...<br></div><div><br></div>1. 1629 - "The Swedish warship Vasa, which sank in 1629 less than a mile into its maiden voyage, was built asymmetrically. Archaeologists have found four rulers used by the workers. Two turned out to be based on Swedish feet with 12 inches. The other two used Amsterdam feed, with 11 inches."<div><br></div><div><a href="http://cdn.ebaumsworld.com/mediaFiles/picture/2287100/84330287.jpg">Short source</a><br></div><div>and</div><div><a href="http://www.pri.org/stories/2012-02-23/new-clues-emerge-centuries-old-swedish-shipwreck">Long source</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>2. 1999 - "NASA lost a $125 million Mars orbiter because a Lockheed Martin engineering team used English units of measurement while the agency's team used the more conventional metric system for a key spacecraft operation."</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://edition.cnn.com/TECH/space/9909/30/mars.metric.02/">Source</a></div><div><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div><div>Mark Kelly</div><div>mark AT vceit DOT com</div><div><a href="http://vceit.com" target="_blank">http://vceit.com</a></div><div><br></div><div><i>The REAL working class has year 9 boys in a double period extra (with no work left by the absent teacher) </i><i>in a relocatable with no air conditioning </i><i>on a February Friday before a long weekend.</i></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div>
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