Confusion leads to Mars failure
The Mars Climate Orbiter Spacecraft was due to do research on Mars.
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| Category | Science |
| Viewed | 437 |
| Failure Added | 15-4-2011 |
Winner Jury award OS 2010 - Vredeseilanden - Credit for Cooperatives in Congo
To provide loan capital to cooperatives for purchasing and gathering crops.
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| Category | Society |
| Viewed | 920 |
| Failure Added | 20-9-2010 |
Winner public award OS 2010 - Text to Change HIV/AIDS Awareness via SMS in Uganda
To create and distribute an HIV/AIDS awareness quiz via SMS with Text to Change.
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| Category | Society |
| Viewed | 1041 |
| Failure Added | 20-9-2010 |
Nobel prize by playing with pencil and scotch tape
In Manchester in 2004, Geim and Novoselov often organized their so called Friday night experiments – a time where they would try out often bizarre ...
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| Category | Technology |
| Viewed | 1178 |
| Failure Added | 7-2-2011 |
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| Category | Business |
| Viewed | 1212 |
| Failure Added | 9-6-2011 |
Proctor and Gamble´s Vibrant and Tide with Bleach
In the 1980s P&G tried to get into the bleach business. We had a differentiated and superior product—a color-safe low-temperature bleach. We ...
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| Category | Business |
| Viewed | 1685 |
| Failure Added | 26-3-2011 |
Re-financing Bad Dept instead of micro-credit for growth
Providing Micro-Credit up to 10.000 Euro to promising young enterpreneurs to support rapid growth.
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| Category | Society |
| Viewed | 1839 |
| Failure Added | 17-9-2010 |
The Norwegian Linie Aquavit
The concept of Linie Aquavit happened by accident in the 1800s.
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| Category | Business |
| Viewed | 1903 |
| Failure Added | 10-11-2010 |
Buckler beer on the Dutch market
At the end of the 1980’s a number of brewers were developing alcohol free and low alcohol (or ‘light’) beers. Despite his initial ...
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| Category | Business |
| Viewed | 2234 |
| Failure Added | 25-5-2009 |
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| Category | Personal |
| Viewed | 2303 |
| Failure Added | 26-3-2011 |