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minus-squareephemerality@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up10·2年前interestingly enough, there is an incident where a unit conversion cause a spacecraft to crash. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Climate_Orbiter NASA specifies that companies who work with NASA should use metric units as a part of the contract. Lockheed produced software that output in imperial units and it caused the orbiter to flame out.
interestingly enough, there is an incident where a unit conversion cause a spacecraft to crash.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Climate_Orbiter
NASA specifies that companies who work with NASA should use metric units as a part of the contract. Lockheed produced software that output in imperial units and it caused the orbiter to flame out.