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this post was submitted on 18 May 2024
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I coulda swore NASA did account for that and wrote unit conversion subroutines, and that the bug was that a conversion was missed, rather than not knowing the unit mismatch at all
why don't just use metric??????
You know how much effort would it take for Americans to change their habits? At least a couple of football fields of effort!
Three eights of a teafuck if you ask me
The US has required metric for all federally funded contracts since before NASA was founded.
What, and open USDM to international competition??