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[–] Hotzilla@sopuli.xyz 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (14 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

[–] infinitepcg@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago (3 children)

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

[–] pennomi@lemmy.world 1 points 6 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.

[–] infinitepcg@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Pretty much the hardware version of && false

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