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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

interestingly enough, there is an incident where a unit conversion cause a spacecraft to crash.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Climate_Orbiter

NASA specifies that companies who work with NASA should use metric units as a part of the contract. Lockheed produced software that output in imperial units and it caused the orbiter to flame out.