MORE SERIOUS BUG STORIES. “The 1996 maiden flight of the European Space Agency’s state-of-the-art Ariane 5 rocket ended in a spectacular explosion over French Guiana. The rocket’s inertial guidance system failed to convert a piece of data from a 64-bit format to a 16-bit format. Estimates on the cost of the lost rocket and cargo run to $500 million.”
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Nigel Fleming
September 21, 2022