Remember that $125 million Mars Climate Orbiter that crashed in 1999? Yeah, that's what happens when one team uses metric and the other uses imperial. The cosmic equivalent of trying to fit a USB plug in the wrong way—except instead of flipping it three times, you lose a spacecraft. NASA engineers were probably like "Houston, we have a... unit conversion problem." Next time someone tells you unit conversions don't matter, just point to the $125 million space debris circling Mars that proves otherwise.
Measurement Error: When Unit Conversions Cost $125 Million
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