Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Measurement Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: We must not let the modern world take the fun out of toxic nationalism jokes. Today's News:

Another funny contribution by #SMBC which adds yet another angle to the #imperialunits situation: https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/measurement

#America-vecotrized #units #ftw 🤣

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In 1999, NASA's Mars Climate Orbiter crashed due to a navigation error caused by a mix-up between the spacecraft's navigation software using metric units (newton-seconds) for measuring thrust, while ground-based software provided data in imperial units (pound-seconds). #science #sciencefacts #nasa #jpl #marsclimateorbiter #metricunits #imperialunits #measurement

In 1999, NASA's Mars Climate Orbiter crashed due to a navigation error caused by a mix-up between the spacecraft's navigation software using metric units, while ground-based software provided data in imperial units.

#science #sciencefacts #nasa #jpl #marsclimateorbiter #metricunits #imperialunits