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Re:Nasa’s Mars Rover Opportunity Concludes a 15-Year Mission by LifeLiverTransp on Wednesday February 13, 2019 @04:30PM (#19157240)
If they make it over 9000 days, they can state the just did a error on the exponent
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Re:Nasa’s Mars Rover Opportunity Concludes a 15-Year Mission by Simon_says on Wednesday February 13, 2019 @05:30PM (#19157777)
Then the units would be time squared. That doesn’t make any sense!
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Re:Nasa’s Mars Rover Opportunity Concludes a 15-Year Mission by mattkrause on Wednesday February 13, 2019 @06:14PM (#19158088)
Nah, just use scientific notation: 9e1 vs 9e3 days.
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Re:Nasa’s Mars Rover Opportunity Concludes a 15-Year Mission by Simon_says on Thursday February 14, 2019 @09:27PM (#19167998)
Oh, OK
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