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The 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

• 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 ago
    An 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.