contentbot@lemmy.caB to Today I Learned (TIL)@lemmy.ca · 2 months agoTIL that NASA lost a $330m Mars Orbiter in 1999, immediately before mars orbit was achieved, because one of the contracted US companies used imperial units instead of metric.everydayastronaut.comexternal-linkmessage-square13fedilinkarrow-up1110arrow-down13file-text
arrow-up1107arrow-down1external-linkTIL that NASA lost a $330m Mars Orbiter in 1999, immediately before mars orbit was achieved, because one of the contracted US companies used imperial units instead of metric.everydayastronaut.comcontentbot@lemmy.caB to Today I Learned (TIL)@lemmy.ca · 2 months agomessage-square13fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareKevin@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up14·2 months agoI coulda swore NASA did account for that and wrote unit conversion subroutines, and that the bug was that a conversion was missed, rather than not knowing the unit mismatch at all
minus-squareVilian@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up13arrow-down2·2 months agowhy don’t just use metric???
minus-squareBlizzard@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11arrow-down2·edit-22 months agoYou know how much effort would it take for Americans to change their habits? At least a couple of football fields of effort!
minus-squaredelirious_owl@discuss.onlinelinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 month agoThe US has required metric for all federally funded contracts since before NASA was founded.
minus-square𝚝𝚛𝚔@aussie.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·2 months agoWhat, and open USDM to international competition??
I coulda swore NASA did account for that and wrote unit conversion subroutines, and that the bug was that a conversion was missed, rather than not knowing the unit mismatch at all
why don’t just use metric???
You know how much effort would it take for Americans to change their habits? At least a couple of football fields of effort!
The US has required metric for all federally funded contracts since before NASA was founded.
What, and open USDM to international competition??