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[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I also heard about a fuckup with the European space agency who had hired an American to work on a particular bit of the project. He used an imperial measurement somewhere and it caused the whole thing to fail.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

That's why there are SI-units.