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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
It's guns per eagle, get it right. What would eagles per gun even be?
A gun that shoots eagles, obviously
We don't shoot eagles in America, we shoot turkeys. Just as Benjamin Franklin intended.
Step clap step step clap
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it happened again with the Intuitive Machines lander that landed on the moon last week
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.
Pretty much the hardware version of && false
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...
Pound-seconds, I believe. Good ol' LM giving imperial numbers to NASA.
Hopefully, the transition to metric is soon and I can stop reading this same joke every week.
it's an orbiter not a lander
It was intended to be an orbiter.
Ended up a missile
Peger the term high velocity lander
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