@Natasha_Jay @stux Don’t be so conservative! Month first, day first, year first, Celsius, Fahrenheit, kilometers, and miles… who cares! The future is fluid, bb!!!

@renwillis @Natasha_Jay @stux What are you, Canadian?

@wendinoakland @Natasha_Jay @stux aspiring, yes! married one, to boot! It’s all in the master plan! Canadians get it, casually bopping back and forth, no one is confused.

Let’s leave the fuddy duddy “this is the way it SHOULD be, dang it” commentary to the fuddy duddy conservatives.

@renwillis @Natasha_Jay @stux Sometimes it’s metric, others it’s imperial. Let’s just get it done. It must be confusing to live between two such extremely different “parents”. ️

@wendinoakland @renwillis @Natasha_Jay @stux

NASA lost the Mars Climate Orbiter in 1999 due to a fatal mix-up between English (feet, pounds) and metric (meters, Newtons) units, where contractor software used English measurements for thruster force while NASA expected metric, causing the orbiter to enter Mars' atmosphere too low and burn up, a classic example of unit conversion error.

Mars Climate Orbiter - NASA Science

Designed to study Mars from orbit and serve as a communications relay for the Mars Polar Lander and Deep Space probes, the Mars Climate Orbiter was unsuccessful due to a navigation error; an investigation found that the spacecraft burned up in Mars' atmosphere.

NASA Science (science.nasa.gov)

$327.6 million

@amiserabilist @renwillis @Natasha_Jay @stux Wasn’t that a critical error with the Hubble Telescope lens? (I’m suggesting you do the research…)

@wendinoakland The Hubble Telescope uses a large, 2.4-meter (8-foot) primary mirror, not a lens

@amiserabilist @renwillis @Natasha_Jay

@stux @amiserabilist @renwillis @Natasha_Jay Maybe it was the mirror…? There was some metric/imperial measurement error on a critical Hubble element

@wendinoakland @amiserabilist @renwillis @Natasha_Jay I'm gonan do some checks Those are veeeery expensive errors woahh