I hope they all die of SHAME. — My oh-so-gentle, sweet, forgiving Anna, after finding out just today that NASA’s $125 million Mars Climate Orbiter crashed and burned on the Red Planet in September 1999, all because its attitude-control system used imperial units but its navigation software used metric units. Look, don’t get her started or she’ll start ranting in at least three different languages.
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