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Even the smallest error in the calculation or a small misunderstanding can lead to tragic consequences, especially when it comes to the scientific field of activity. Below are the eight most striking examples of how misinterpreted information may result in a terrible tragedy.

1. Inconsistency metric system of units has led to the collapse of NASA satellites orbiting Mars

Martian climate artificial orbital satellite was launched in 1998 in order to study the climatic characteristics and atmospheric composition of the red planet. However, soon after the launch of the connection object has been lost. The problem was that the computer software in the world to use the standard metric system in pounds per second (lb / s) adopted in the US and the UK, while this unit was to follow the information obtained in Newtons per second (N / s). Thus, the artificial satellite entered the Martian atmosphere at too low an altitude and burned.

2. Apocalypse 2012 version of Maya did not take place due to errors in the calculation date

Misinterpretation of the Mayan calendar has convinced many people that the end of December 2012, all come to an end. The explanation, in fact, turned out to be quite simple - the date of December 21, 2012 corresponded to the end of a normal year and indicates the beginning of a new one. As a result, the date 21.12.2012 for the Maya, as it turned out, the same as that of 31.12.2012 for all other peoples of the world, then it only comes the new year.

3. The plane crash in 1977 in the Canary Islands that killed 583 people, occurred because of a misunderstanding by pilots messages Manager

The two aircraft collided at 747 runway Los Rodeos Airport, killing 583 people, and it all happened only because of the misunderstanding between Pilot and controller. Fog that day was so thick that visibility was almost zero.

Lack of understanding between the captain of the aircraft company "KLM" airport manager and created a situation where the pilots of the aircraft allegedly received permission to take off, and the band was empty. However, on the runway at the same time expecting permission to take off the other ship company "Pan American". As a result, the two cars collided on the ground.

4. Sir William Thomson made a mistake at 4, 45 billion years in determining the age of the Earth

The first person who with the help of the latest discoveries in the field of geology and physics tried to calculate the exact age of the planet back in the 1800's, was Sir William Thomson.

Thomson relied in its calculations for the periods when the Earth heats and cools, so by calculating the estimated age between 20 and 40 million years. Whereas today the true age of the earth is considered to be 4, 5 billion years.

Error Thomson was the fact that he considered the Earth after cooling the molten state final stage of planet formation and the beginning of the origin of life, whereas even after subsequent cooling of the cosmic body temperature a very long time has changed. And even despite the apparent underestimation of the age of our blue planet, its calculation has become a phenomenal achievement of science, which until then determined the period of existence of the Earth rather on religious precepts, dating its existence several thousand years.

5. Columbus seriously miscalculated in determining the distance, because of what he and his team nearly lost their lives

Generally, Columbus made a series of errors in the calculations. Firstly, he did not consider the implementation of a calculation of the distance degree latitude marked on the map. Secondly, he has mixed Roman and Arabic miles, of which the latter was much more. Third, it has a position of Japan closer to 12 kilometers, than it actually is.

6. The media reported that 12 people injured in an accident at the mine safely rescued, while in fact 11 of them were already dead

Needless to say that experienced relatives and family members of the 12 workers when they initially cheered glad tidings, and three hours later taken aback sad news. Probably a mistake in understanding occurred between rescuers and journalists, when the first through the protective mask that does not allow to communicate normally, trying to convey to the last true state of affairs.

7. Incorrect understanding of what cold medicine should be taken, resulting in a severely damaged brain eight year old girl

Mackenzie Bryant immediately after birth underwent a complicated operation on heart transplantation, because of what she instructed to avoid receiving certain types of medications to avoid potential complications.

At the age of eight years, Bryant caught a cold and the doctor consulted watched her doctor cardiologist regarding permissible drugs. And then there are two specialist incorrectly understood each other, whether the doctor had forgotten to remove from the list of Afrin (oxymetazoline), a girl after taking this medicine just could not swallow, talk and walk.

So, the result of a misunderstanding of two doctors forever deprived child opportunities to live fully, leaving her helpless exist with irreversible lesion of the cerebral cortex.

8. Even Einstein almost became a victim of an error in his calculations, adding to his theory of relativity, the cosmological constant

He used the so-called cosmological constant in many of its formulas, confirming the erroneous idea that the universe is supposedly stable, rather than narrowing or expanding.

Ultimately, it was proved that vsёlennaya constantly expanding, so Einstein had to remove this constant from its calculations. However, as it turned out, the universe is expanding steadily increasing pace, so again demanded value, which could reflect this phenomenon, and the theory of relativity was again added to the cosmological constant.
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