The Mars Climate Orbiter incident In 1999, when NASA's Mars Climate Orbiter spacecraft was lost in space due to a software error.
The software on the spacecraft used metric units, while the ground-based navigation software used imperial units. This mismatch in units led to incorrect calculations and caused the spacecraft to approach Mars at the wrong trajectory.
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The Mars Climate Orbiter incident In 1999, when NASA's Mars Climate Orbiter spacecraft was lost in space due to a software error.
The software on the spacecraft used metric units, while the ground-based navigation software used imperial units. This mismatch in units led to incorrect calculations and caused the spacecraft to approach Mars at the wrong trajectory.
That's my favorite example for explaining primitive obsession
❌ Your types should never be "Int" or "String"
✅ Use instead "Duration", "Length", "DateTime" ...
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Also the metric system is objectively better than imperial units.