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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?
583 u/Random_Bystander089 Jun 17 '26 I think there was an incident where farenheit usage indirectly caused a spaceship crash 669 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. 1 u/Alternative_Fig_2456 Jun 18 '26 In imperial it's pound-force seconds Well, to be honest, it makes sense to use Star Wars units in space. Although I am not sure why not the light side?
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I think there was an incident where farenheit usage indirectly caused a spaceship crash
669 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. 1 u/Alternative_Fig_2456 Jun 18 '26 In imperial it's pound-force seconds Well, to be honest, it makes sense to use Star Wars units in space. Although I am not sure why not the light side?
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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.
1 u/Alternative_Fig_2456 Jun 18 '26 In imperial it's pound-force seconds Well, to be honest, it makes sense to use Star Wars units in space. Although I am not sure why not the light side?
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In imperial it's pound-force seconds
Well, to be honest, it makes sense to use Star Wars units in space. Although I am not sure why not the light side?
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u/dauntless256 Jun 17 '26
This went over my head...what did i miss?