Air-conditioners do great good, but at a high environmental cost

Re:Air-conditioners do great good, but at a high environment... by hoorayimhelping on Tuesday August 28, 2018 @09:15PM (#17864433)

>Note to downvoters: This is an objective answer to an objective question. It is not an opinion on the US's use of imperial units.

It's an answer to a question that no one asked. The question was:

>How is Fahrenheit more difficult to calculate with than Celsius, and what does it have to do with space probes?

From the link you provided:

>Specifically, software that calculated the total impulse produced by thruster firings produced results in pound-force seconds. The trajectory calculation software then used these results – expected to be in newton seconds – to update the predicted position of the spacecraft.

It has nothing to do with Farenheit or Celsius. The error was with the representation of force, not temperature.

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Re:Air-conditioners do great good, but at a high environment... by Arnavion on Tuesday August 28, 2018 @09:17PM (#17864458)

Indeed it has nothing to do with temperature scales, which is why I made sure to quote the original sentence from kragen which was also not specifically about temperature scales but general "archaic systems of measurement".

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