Just a note to all you Euros and various other inferiors on this Fourth of July

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HeyMoe
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HTownAg98
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We lost a Mars orbiter because we couldn't convert English to metric.
A better meme is this one:
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Not exactly true. This was a software problem where the output was in the incorrect system of measurement, not a conversion problem. Lockheed simply didn't follow the contract specs. Had they actually done that, there wouldn't have been a problem.

That being said, how many other counties have even gotten anything TO Mars to lose? We can land just about anything anywhere and have a pretty damn good track record of doing so.
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That being said, how many other counties have even gotten anything TO Mars to lose?

USA
Soviet Union
Europe (European Space Agency)
India
Russia

Japan and China have both had missions that failed, but both have missions scheduled to launch in the next few years. UAE is also sending an orbiter to Mars in 2020.
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All of that is so 1976.
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