← Back to context Comment by rvnx 1 day ago Main priority to prevent accidents is to migrate away from this imperial system. 3 comments rvnx Reply mh- 1 day ago You can forget to carry a 1 in metric, too. rvnx 21 hours ago It won't save everything will will reduce at least two possibles routes of mistake (wrong unit, or imprecise conversion).OP wrote "km miles", which would create an incident.SpaceX uses metric system for that exact reason, because in the past, on Mars, accident happened because of imperial measures. Retric 11 hours ago Yep, the point of saying “km miles” was the hypothetical uncertainty around units even for European airlines who use metric internationally. However, even within metric might be some question around units.
mh- 1 day ago You can forget to carry a 1 in metric, too. rvnx 21 hours ago It won't save everything will will reduce at least two possibles routes of mistake (wrong unit, or imprecise conversion).OP wrote "km miles", which would create an incident.SpaceX uses metric system for that exact reason, because in the past, on Mars, accident happened because of imperial measures. Retric 11 hours ago Yep, the point of saying “km miles” was the hypothetical uncertainty around units even for European airlines who use metric internationally. However, even within metric might be some question around units.
rvnx 21 hours ago It won't save everything will will reduce at least two possibles routes of mistake (wrong unit, or imprecise conversion).OP wrote "km miles", which would create an incident.SpaceX uses metric system for that exact reason, because in the past, on Mars, accident happened because of imperial measures. Retric 11 hours ago Yep, the point of saying “km miles” was the hypothetical uncertainty around units even for European airlines who use metric internationally. However, even within metric might be some question around units.
Retric 11 hours ago Yep, the point of saying “km miles” was the hypothetical uncertainty around units even for European airlines who use metric internationally. However, even within metric might be some question around units.
You can forget to carry a 1 in metric, too.
It won't save everything will will reduce at least two possibles routes of mistake (wrong unit, or imprecise conversion).
OP wrote "km miles", which would create an incident.
SpaceX uses metric system for that exact reason, because in the past, on Mars, accident happened because of imperial measures.
Yep, the point of saying “km miles” was the hypothetical uncertainty around units even for European airlines who use metric internationally. However, even within metric might be some question around units.