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The Mars Climate Orbiter crashed because some fuckwit programmer at Lockheed Martin programmed their tiny piece of software in freedom units, instead of metric like they were required.
https://universemagazine.com/en/space-bugs-seven-notable-accidents-caused-by-computer-errors/
https://www.csoonline.com/article/567417/8-famous-software-bugs-in-space.html
https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/20230012154/downloads/8-17-23%2020230012154.pdf
also - i rally want to know how old is the screenshot in the last frame, that joke must have been making rounds for some time now ๐
I reley dont wan to point out your typo, but you triggered this year's rewatch of Dot Dot Dot
Be-a-ca-u-se
mildly fany.