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Serious science experiments like the resoundingly successful controlled descent into martian terrain. IMHO this is just the tip of the iceberg. I can’t even be
by lloeki 7y ago
Serious science experiments like the resoundingly successful controlled descent into martian terrain.
IMHO this is just the tip of the iceberg. I can’t even begin to fathom the inordinate amount of conversion mistakes there might be but we never hear about or even detect because this is not NASA yet have possibly damaging consequences.
- syn0byte 7y agoThe lander crash could have just as easily been happened using 2 different metric units. It wasn't caused by improper conversion, it was caused by no conversion. Each part assumed the other was using the same unit.
- ajuc 7y ago> The lander crash could have just as easily been happened using 2 different metric units Nobody uses anything but meters and seconds with metric in science. But even if - using 2 different metric units would give answers differing by a factor of 1000 - a little easier to notice than Pound vs Newton (1 to ~4.45).
- saalweachter 7y agoAn object is moving 25. Is that m/s, km/h or kmps?
- bandy 7y ago> Nobody uses anything but meters and seconds with metric in science. Sure, now. It took the loss of the Mars Climate Orbiter to end the Imperial madness at NASA.
- zeveb 7y ago> Nobody uses anything but meters and seconds with metric in science. A lander is engineering and science, and I can guarantee you that there is a non-zero probability of one part of a system working in m/s and another in km/h — which would lead to the exact same error.