The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe > Messages and Questions From the Panel
Science Blunders
Belgarath:
Definitely Einstein's addition of the Cosmological constant in order to meet his aesthetics.
Chew:
Galileo's refusal to believe planets orbited in ellipses; he believed they were perfect circles.
Galileo's theory of tides (sloshing of ocean basins because of Earth's rotation and revolution).
Belgarath:
This may/may not fit, Steve, but how about Pons and Fleishmann discovering cold fusion?
I don't know if it was a blunder or it was a fabrication.
superdave:
http://articles.cnn.com/1999-09-30/tech/9909_30_mars.metric.02_1_climate-orbiter-spacecraft-team-metric-system?_s=PM:TECH
--- Quote ---CNN NASA lost a 125 million Mars orbiter because a Lockheed Martin engineering team used English units of measurement while the agencys team used the more conventional metric system for a key spacecraft operation, according to a review finding released Thursday.
--- End quote ---
Chew:
Moloch's link includes Pons and Fleischmann and Mars Climate Orbiter.
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