Post B4XPNlqu7aWJkLmCSu by pozorvlak@mathstodon.xyz
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 (DIR) Post #B4XPNlqu7aWJkLmCSu by pozorvlak@mathstodon.xyz
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       RE: https://masto.ai/@bovine3dom/116272684109428704One of my niche opinions is that the Imperial unit system is a staggering triumph in the management of technical debt. Working steadily over centuries, generations of engineers and lawmakers took a system which had been established by the Romans for trading goods and had then splintered into literally thousands of incompatible dialects, and they simplified and regularised it to the point it could (just about) be used for space travel.Of course, it's also a great example of the limitations of that kind of gradual, iterative cleanup! Sometimes it's better to bite the bullet and do a ground-up rewrite.RT: https://masto.ai/users/bovine3dom/statuses/116272684109428704
       
 (DIR) Post #B4XPNm3JNSReMpa6nw by mirabilos@toot.mirbsd.org
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       @pozorvlak could it? I thought NASA was all-metric.
       
 (DIR) Post #B4Y0oXTFOdKRGXL2Fk by pozorvlak@mathstodon.xyz
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       @mirabilos even in the Sixties? Imperial units have certainly been used for space travel on at least one occasion - the Mars Climate Orbiter.
       
 (DIR) Post #B4Y0oXewh8gbqooNUG by mirabilos@toot.mirbsd.org
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       @pozorvlak from what I heard, definitely as late back as the 1970s, possibly further