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[โ€“] CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social 34 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

I think literally every time I had a science teacher want to drill into student's heads the importance of including units in one's physics or chemistry calculations, they brought up this story. I wonder what example they used before this

[โ€“] Iapar@feddit.de 21 points 6 months ago

None, that's why it happened to NASA.