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[–] valar@lemmy.ca 3 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (1 children)

"Oh I'm sorry, did you guys not use imperial when you walked on the moon?"

[–] esc@piefed.social 2 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

Did they?

[–] Deckname@piefed.social 7 points 5 hours 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

[–] FiniteBanjo@feddit.online 2 points 5 hours ago

AFAIK no country on earth has brought humans to the moon since the Apollo missions ended, so no.