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Mars Opportunity Rover: Driving the Jet Propulsion Lab's Mars Rover, Again
- p1mrx 10y agoLet's analyze the units in this article. We have: (1) miles, (2) a paragraph about JPL's consistent use of the metric system, (3) several paragraphs translating JPL's data into feet, pounds, feet-per-minute, mph, Fahrenheit, pound-feet, and inches. Madness, I tell you.
- tempodox 10y agoIndeed. > We’re JPL. We’re on the metric system. I wish the article had adopted that, too. Instead, my hair stood up to a length of 3+4/7 Royal Hangnails, my head swelled to a volume of 5+2/3 Princely Bladders and my sanity went out at a speed of 17+3/5 Regal Farts.
- mino 10y ago> Indeed. I get so sad when I read stuff like: > At 1982 pounds (...) 494 pound-feet of torque (...) just 0.02 inch thick (...)
- ourmandave 10y agoIt doesn't say if they drove the base model or the well equipped one. =)
- Intermernet 10y agoWell equipped; it's got 2 moon roofs.