▲ 216 ▼ One Expensive Mistake (thelemmy.club) submitted 3 months ago by Grumpus_Maximus@thelemmy.club to c/historymemes@piefed.social 30 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] esc@piefed.social 2 points 3 months ago (2 children) Did they? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Deckname@piefed.social 8 points 3 months ago Well yes and no? Calculations were apparently done in metric units but operators were reading fantasy customary units. Although data was stored internally in metric units, they were displayed as United States customary units. Fom the Wikipedia Article for the Apollo Guidance Computer permalink fedilink source parent [–] FiniteBanjo@feddit.online 2 points 3 months ago AFAIK no country on earth has brought humans to the moon since the Apollo missions ended, so no. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Deckname@piefed.social 8 points 3 months ago Well yes and no? Calculations were apparently done in metric units but operators were reading fantasy customary units. Although data was stored internally in metric units, they were displayed as United States customary units. Fom the Wikipedia Article for the Apollo Guidance Computer permalink fedilink source parent
[–] FiniteBanjo@feddit.online 2 points 3 months ago AFAIK no country on earth has brought humans to the moon since the Apollo missions ended, so no. permalink fedilink source parent
