Post #1847873
2026-04-07 00:26 UTC
@michaelgemar @futuresprog I listened in a little earlier when the control room were relaying the crew distance in miles, and one of the crew said "we would like that in meters, kilometers and parsecs, please"
The control room person laughed and said "noted", but didn't actually relay the metric figures.
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@futuresprog@mastodon.nzoss.nz 2026-04-07 00:30
I'm glad NASA learned the lesson from accidentally mixing up metric and Imperial units and won't make any mistakes this time and crash any spacecraft full of people into the Moon. https://llis.nasa.gov/lesson/641 @essjax @michaelgemar
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@passenger@kolektiva.social 2026-04-07 08:08
@essjax @michaelgemar @futuresprog This is a good joke and I don't want to downplay it, but I will also point out that if they are measuring anything about a Moon voyage in parsecs, something has gone drastically wrong.