Not recently.Fly space shuttle much?
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Not recently.Fly space shuttle much?
Not recently.
The problem was confusion caused by the existence two systems and the misalliance between ground based computers and the operational system in the probe.Sorry, my forgettery's getting older. It was Mars Orbiter, not a space shuttle: Mars Climate Orbiter - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Human error, not the fault of either the metric or the imperial system.
There's also the apocryphal story about a novice US Diver renting a computer overseas at a tropical dive location, and diving it to what he thought was 60 feet on the display. (Might have been a potential Darwin Award Honorable Mention).
Big difference between 60 feet and 60 meters. . .
what AJ said. Metric is better, it makes more sense, tanks are measured directly instead of indirectly, depth is easier to think about because of atmospheres which makes all the calculations easier. My gear is in metric, but only because my two primary dive buddies are engineers and think in metric, so it works for us, we also dive with "same ocean" principals, so there isn't much communication going on with regards to those units. Their pressure gauges are in imperial because they haven't had a need to change them.
Imperial is certainly easier if you dive with varied buddies, or dive in a team, it is best to stay on the local system, which is imperial on this side of the pond unfortunately.
AI computers can usually give you the tank pressure in either metric or imperial at your choice.I'll make sure my computer/s can do both metric and imperial. Still on the fence as far as pressure gauges.
So can a less expensive, more reliable dual unit SPG.AI computers can usually give you the tank pressure in either metric or imperial at your choice.
*dons flameproof suit*