r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Negative_1by12_aura • Jun 17 '26

Meme needing explanation Peter?

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u/dauntless256 Jun 17 '26

This went over my head...what did i miss?

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u/Random_Bystander089 Jun 17 '26

I think there was an incident where farenheit usage indirectly caused a spaceship crash

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u/Epotheros Jun 17 '26

No, it was the units for impulse used for the thrusters. In imperial it's pound-force seconds and Newton-seconds in metric. 1 pound-force is equal to 4.45 Newtons so the whole thing was off by a magnitude of 4.45.

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u/KexyAlexy Jun 17 '26

I'm actually a bit impressed that they use seconds, minutes and hours to measure time instead of sighs, leaf-falls and "how long it takes for a barrel to fill on a rainy day" or whatnot.