"Mike Hord" <mike.hord@gmail.com> wrote in message 
news:88eca9220706120750r7c36bd6fif4cde8b4a8228cde@mail.gmail.com...
> AARRRGHGHGHG!
>
> http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2007/06/11/spacestationmon_spa.html?category=space&guid=20070611083000&dcitc=w19-502-ak-0000
>
> You'll need to "unwrap" that, no doubt.
>
> http://tinyurl.com/2dhvns
>
> In explaining the relative power generation of the ISS's
> new 14-kW solar array, Discovery states:
> "To put that in perspective, a 100-watt bulb left on for 10
> hours uses one kilowatt."

Glad I'm not the only one to notice that mistake.  This statement makes the 
average joe think the new solar arrays are puny.

Jeff
-- 
    "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a
     little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor
     safety"
- B. Franklin, Bartlett's Familiar Quotations (1919) 



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