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Now's where one needs the Wikipedia article titled something like "Engineering Failures Caused By American/Metric Confusion". There's at least https://en.wikip
by deathanatos 4y ago
Now's where one needs the Wikipedia article titled something like "Engineering Failures Caused By American/Metric Confusion".
There's at least https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Climate_Orbiter https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Climate_Orbiter and TBH I was hoping there'd be a link to such a list on that one.
I seriously hope I'm Poe's Law-ing your post too, and there's an implied /s on there, because if you could see the level of communication effort I see at work … yeah, I'd absolutely believe that someone would use it in a confusable context.
- BerislavLopac 4y agoOh this is my cue to share my favourite story stemming out of this confusion, the story of the Gimli Glider [0]. It is full of incredible events, each of which would be a good story in its own right - and it still has nothing to do with our favourite Dwarf. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gimli_Glider https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gimli_Glider