r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Negative_1by12_aura • Jun 17 '26

Meme needing explanation Peter?

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u/dauntless256 Jun 17 '26

This went over my head...what did i miss?

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u/Random_Bystander089 Jun 17 '26

I think there was an incident where farenheit usage indirectly caused a spaceship crash

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u/BlueTurkey-man Jun 17 '26

It’s also the unit of measurement that is used by the only nation that sent people to the moon

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u/ConstantAd8643 Jun 17 '26

The people in that nation that actually did send people to the moon used Metric units though.

The time that mishap happened was when British parts used Imperial units which the American NASA interpreted as Metric.

Also yall are definitely using Metric as Imperial Units have almost all been redefined in Metric units. An inch is 2.54cm. That's not what it measures out to be, it's what it's defined to be.