A NASA Satellite Blows Up In Space
Imagine spending years of working on one piece of complex machinery and it finally makes it into space, only to disintegrate into nothing. In the 1990s, NASA invested $125 million to build and send the Mars Climate Orbiter into space but they were devastated when they saw it burn up. What’s worse is the fact that it was because of one team (the Jet Propulsion Laboratory) using the Metric System and another (Lockheed Martin’s division) using the Imperial System. Speaking to the LA Times, the director of Space Policy Institute at George Washington University put it best when he said, “That is so dumb. There seems to have emerged over the past couple of years a systematic problem in the space community of insufficient attention to detail.”
A NASA Satellite Blows Up In Space
An Entire Apartment Block Topples Over
In 2009, the Lotus Riverside Apartment Complex was being built in China when one whole block fell over on its side. Apparently, it happened due to construction of an underground parking garage. The dirt that the workers removed was placed on a nearby riverbank, which collapsed because of the weight of the dirt. Water leaked in and the building’s foundations became unstable, leading them to crumble. During that time, space in the apartment was being sold at $2,000 per square meter. The developers had to start again and also clear the damage. Incredibly, there was only one fatality in the terrible accident despite the incredible size of the apartment block.
An Entire Apartment Block Topples Over
