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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
275 3 ReplyIt's guns per eagle, get it right. What would eagles per gun even be?
74 0 ReplyA gun that shoots eagles, obviously
26 0 ReplyWe don't shoot eagles in America, we shoot turkeys. Just as Benjamin Franklin intended.
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Step clap step step clap
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it happened again with the Intuitive Machines lander that landed on the moon last week
31 2 ReplyThe 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.
52 0 ReplyPretty much the hardware version of && false
26 0 Replythat 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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Pound-seconds, I believe. Good ol' LM giving imperial numbers to NASA.
20 0 ReplyPound-seconds wouldn't be a force, but i looked and it seems there is pound of force or pound-force, lbf, wich is a unit of force, i guess that's it.
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Hopefully, the transition to metric is soon and I can stop reading this same joke every week.
15 1 Replyit's an orbiter not a lander
12 0 ReplyIt was intended to be an orbiter.
37 0 ReplyEnded up a missile
12 0 ReplyPeger the term high velocity lander
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rods from god
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