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user-inactivated  ·  2269 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Secret spy satellite may be lost after SpaceX launch

    Remember when the Mars lander plummeted into the surface like a bullet because one organization was using Metric, and the other was using Stupid American Units? Yeah. That's gonna be remembered for EVER.

Every class I've had that involves unit conversions brings this up since high school.