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Road Side Pub
Biggest engineering screwup
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<blockquote data-quote="BOOGIE MAN" data-source="post: 16244134" data-attributes="member: 26082"><p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Ford's Powershift trans</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The Central and Southern Florida Flood Control Project. They spent hundreds upon hundreds of millions of dollars building over 1k miles of canals, pumping stations, and levees. Then in '62 they started straightening the Kissimmee River. Wildlife vanished, water quality plummeted, and the Everglades started dying. Then, they decided what they did was wrong and started to fill the canals and make the river windy like it was before. The project still isn't done... Over 50 years and billions of dollars down the drain (pardon the pun).</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The Mars Climate Orbiter - The program controlling the thrusters calculated the thrust in pounds where the trajectory program uses Newtons. Orbiter burned up in the atmosphere, over $300million gone. </li> </ul></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BOOGIE MAN, post: 16244134, member: 26082"] [LIST] [*]Ford's Powershift trans [*]The Central and Southern Florida Flood Control Project. They spent hundreds upon hundreds of millions of dollars building over 1k miles of canals, pumping stations, and levees. Then in '62 they started straightening the Kissimmee River. Wildlife vanished, water quality plummeted, and the Everglades started dying. Then, they decided what they did was wrong and started to fill the canals and make the river windy like it was before. The project still isn't done... Over 50 years and billions of dollars down the drain (pardon the pun). [*]The Mars Climate Orbiter - The program controlling the thrusters calculated the thrust in pounds where the trajectory program uses Newtons. Orbiter burned up in the atmosphere, over $300million gone. [/LIST] [/QUOTE]
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