One Expensive Mistake

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• 5inister@reddthat.com ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  What units is the 1 above Nasa in? Is it a metric 1 or a “no public healthcare” 1?

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• tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  If your flight computer can’t count that high

  You will not go to space today

  https://youtu.be/Ayu0GsrvKQA

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• becausechemistry@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  When you watch a ULA launch stream and they talk about how many nautical miles in altitude they are it’s just so fuckin embarrassing

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  • MajorasMaskForever@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Fun fact:

    Internally they switch between imperial and metric all the time. The broadcast is in imperial for US viewers.

    Sauce: once upon a time I worked there

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    • becausechemistry@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I still don’t understand nautical miles. Everyone knows regular miles. Or even feet, that’s what Blue Origin does because it’s relative to aircraft altitude that people might know. But nautical miles? I don’t get it.

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• FiniteBanjo@feddit.online ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Technically the ISS isn’t NASA and it has happened to them as well.

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• Sunshine@piefed.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Good thing Trump is ending the only metric highway in the USA despite pleas from locals.

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• neidu3@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  To be fair, an Ariane 5 rocket failed because of a float being treated as a double, or something similar. I don’t remember the details, but what makes it embarrassing is that it was the result of recycling code from Ariane 4.

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  • filcuk@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I don’t think recycling code is embarrassing? No-one can be expected to write a new codebase from scratch for every new product or machine. That would be worse than building on top of a solid foundation.

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    • neidu3@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      It isn’t. Never testing that it’s compatible with the new hardware platform is.

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• terranoid@lemmy.cafe ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Gotta break a few pounds of eggs to make a meter wide omelette

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• ParlimentOfDoom@piefed.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  NASA used metric, it was a contractor that fucked up the conversion on their piece which they decided to do in US units for some reason

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  • zikzak025@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Lockheed is the company that fucked up by using US customary, for any curious.

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    • Kalothar@lemmy.ca ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Image

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• Ariselas@piefed.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  even worse, Americans cant even get a pint right and will short you 4oz

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  • AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I like how it just devolved from metric vs imperial to imperial vs imperial

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  • TaterTot@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I consider myself a fairly “progressive and open minded American”. I have even paid lip service to the superiority of the metric system.

    But I can say with sincerity, this is the first thing that has ever made me truly care about metric vs imperial… or conversions in general.

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    • Cethin@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      They’re both imperial though. The Brits are fucking weird. They act like they use metric, but they swap between them like crazy. The US and British have different versions of several measurements with the same name though. If you look into the history of the measurements, some of them get insane with dozens of different potential values.

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  • jesusactuallyhateshorses@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Then ask for a tip…

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• valar@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  “Oh I’m sorry, did you guys not use imperial when you walked on the moon?”

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  • esc@piefed.social@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Did they?

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    • FiniteBanjo@feddit.online ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      AFAIK no country on earth has brought humans to the moon since the Apollo missions ended, so no.

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    • Deckname@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Well yes and no? Calculations were apparently done in metric units but operators were reading fantasy customary units.

      Although data was stored internally in metric units, they were displayed as United States customary units.

      Fom the Wikipedia Article for the Apollo Guidance Computer

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• Plum@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Oops

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