contentbotB 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-square15fedilinkarrow-up1115arrow-down13file-text
arrow-up1112arrow-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.comcontentbotB to Today I Learned (TIL)@lemmy.ca • 2 months agomessage-square15fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareKevinlinkfedilink15•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-square@Blizzard@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglish10•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-square@delirious_owl@discuss.onlinelinkfedilink2•2 months agoThe US has required metric for all federally funded contracts since before NASA was founded.
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!
Three eights of a teafuck if you ask me
The US has required metric for all federally funded contracts since before NASA was founded.
What, and open USDM to international competition??