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Taking a Hit with Dr. Staci Gruber and Ricky Williams
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What Is Maxwell's Demons?
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We had a mars probe, it mars orbital surveyor or something, and it went to mars and just blew past mars. We found out that the engineers were using english units, and the physicists were using metric units. When they calculated the thrust, they used two different units, and it was too much thrust, and we lost. I don't remember what that probe cost surtly in the millions. So that was embarrassing. Why dos e british get, even if they're no gramlins is what the british getting again? O sono grivlins. That's likea term that yougas use. Atat actually ther's something called maxwell's demons
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