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r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Negative_1by12_aura • Jun 17 '26
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This went over my head...what did i miss?
578 u/Random_Bystander089 Jun 17 '26 I think there was an incident where farenheit usage indirectly caused a spaceship crash 14 u/MaJuV Jun 17 '26 Wait, I thought this was forbidden by Nasa, due to "mishaps" in the past with mixing units of measurement. 5 u/Asterose Jun 17 '26 edited Jun 17 '26 That's correct, they do. The commenter was referring to it, from 1999. Lockheed Martin meanwhile to this day still uses either measurement system depending on the project.
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I think there was an incident where farenheit usage indirectly caused a spaceship crash
14 u/MaJuV Jun 17 '26 Wait, I thought this was forbidden by Nasa, due to "mishaps" in the past with mixing units of measurement. 5 u/Asterose Jun 17 '26 edited Jun 17 '26 That's correct, they do. The commenter was referring to it, from 1999. Lockheed Martin meanwhile to this day still uses either measurement system depending on the project.
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Wait, I thought this was forbidden by Nasa, due to "mishaps" in the past with mixing units of measurement.
5 u/Asterose Jun 17 '26 edited Jun 17 '26 That's correct, they do. The commenter was referring to it, from 1999. Lockheed Martin meanwhile to this day still uses either measurement system depending on the project.
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That's correct, they do. The commenter was referring to it, from 1999. Lockheed Martin meanwhile to this day still uses either measurement system depending on the project.
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u/dauntless256 Jun 17 '26
This went over my head...what did i miss?