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To: Feathered Propeller who wrote (19434)	9/30/1999 7:36:00 PM
From: Moonray	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 22053

A few thoughts on this: 1) There were government specs in Lockheed's hands that would have spelled out the measurements. Perhaps, since I left in '93, Lockheed can no longer read? Perhaps, since the 80% funding cuts in the last 10 years, Lockheed is now using janitors? 2) If you were JPL and somebody gave you figures that were in miles instead of the feet you were expecting, wouldn't you notice? Moonray, is this JPL just trying to spread the blame? Hundreds of thousands of space/defense workers with 10 years or more experience have been lost due to government cutbacks over the last decade. These people were shown the door with NO mistakes. It did not take any $125 million mistake to get shown the door where I used to work. There goes the media, concentrating on the one negative instead of the positive, again!<g> The mistake was particularly embarrassing because the spacecraft had successfully flown 416 million miles over 9 1/2 months before its disappearance Sept. 23 just as it was about to go into orbit around the Red Planet. o~~~ O

To: Feathered Propeller who wrote (19434)	9/30/1999 11:48:00 PM
From: jhild	Respond to of 22053

That is so silly. Mars is Metric. It's Venus that's on the English system.