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

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[–] [email protected] 274 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 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 8 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 53 points 8 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 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Pretty much the hardware version of && false

[–] [email protected] 13 points 8 months ago

that ended up working better anyway

Not sure if it ended up working better, as it landed with nonzero horizontal velocity. Though I suppose we'll never know how well the original system would have performed...

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