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Shiiieeettt....... (lemmy.world)

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[–] [email protected] 270 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (18 children)

They did it once by mixing meters and feets, and crashed the Mars lander.

Edit: looked it up, wasn't actually meters vs feet, but newton-seconds vs some American eagles per gun unit for force

[–] [email protected] 30 points 5 months ago (3 children)

it happened again with the Intuitive Machines lander that landed on the moon last week

[–] [email protected] 53 points 5 months ago (2 children)

The Intuitive Machines lander issue was that no one disarmed the safety switch on the laser guidance system. (No, really!) Luckily NASA had a backup system installed that ended up working better anyway.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Pretty much the hardware version of && false

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