Every Small Mistakes in Math that caused Huge Disasters

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@salix_babylonic9 2 ай бұрын

The more I learn about the Titanic, the more confident I am that it was inevitable that it sunk rather than just being poor circumstances

@shmookins 3 ай бұрын

From memory, there was a Mars mission that crashed because the instruments distance measurements were in meters but the people at NASA thought it was feet- or something like that. Also, the private lunar lander that crashed because they changed the landing location without telling the engineers and so the lander, after passing over crater's edge, thought it reached the surface and began the landing procedure. The error was that the lander was way way up above the lunar surface. The limited landing fuel ran out and the lander dropped and crashed on the surface. There is a lot of mistakes in space missions because space is hard. From QI, I learned about a British person building a railway in India starting from two ends and meeting at the middle. At the meeting point, the rails weren't aligned. He was so distraught by this he went home and shot himself.

@jaggerbushOG 2 ай бұрын

My dad retired from the port authority in Pittsburgh. Way before that - as kids - we got to ride in the first of the "new" cars on the Monongahela Incline. The cars were measured incorrectly and wouldnt fit into the lower station, thus cancelling opening day and postponing the reopening for months. Early 1980s

@InternetDarkLord 2 ай бұрын

You missed a big mistake. In 1893, the HMS Victoria sank after a collision with the HMS Camperdown during naval maneuvers, killing over 300. It was widely suspected at the time the British Admiral planning the actions confused the ship's turning radius with the diameter, so they were at the wrong distance apart.

@fish3977 3 ай бұрын

wait, what's the error on the first one?

@nomic655 3 ай бұрын

the angle

@starfeast 2 ай бұрын

In what way was the angle an error?

@nomic655 2 ай бұрын

@@starfeast It's bad design.

@F-sj7cu 2 ай бұрын

@@nomic655so helpful

@xinpingdonohoe3978 2 ай бұрын

They were primed to crash into each other, since entry and exit were shared.

@carl11547 2 ай бұрын

Yeah, you mention unit errors in the Vasa part, then you have a voice-over saying "Euros" but the scree says "dollars'. Not the same.

@ians8843 2 ай бұрын

They made the station platforms smaller. They didn’t change the trains!

@tapiolankiira1968 2 ай бұрын

10:06 "Steam only goes one way" ?

@kasperillas1444 2 ай бұрын

Where did u hear the facts about the different units causing vasa to sink? From school and tours they say a bunch of reasons but never mention a unit error?