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TIL that in 1962, NASA's Mariner 1 spacecraft failed to orbit and had to be blown up 5 minutes after liftoff due to a single typo in its programmed guidance equations, causing NASA a setback of $80 mi (www.vice.com)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Damn, doing anything based on an absolute value is indeed very different than doing so based on a mean. That's a big mistake