Comment unit loss (Score 1) 31
The missing micron is quite a bit funnier if you've just skimmed another recent story submission:
[Philae's] seven months of lost data were completely unnecessary, and resulted solely from the world's nuclear fears.
We don't even need to bring up Tepco, which is just as well since plutonium is a different beast. We are talking plutonium, aren't we?
However, on September 23, 1999, communication with the spacecraft was lost as the spacecraft went into orbital insertion, due to ground-based computer software which produced output in non-SI units of pound-seconds (lbfÃ--s) instead of the metric units of newton-seconds (NÃ--s) specified in the contract between NASA and Lockheed. The spacecraft encountered Mars on a trajectory that brought it too close to the planet, causing it to pass through the upper atmosphere and disintegrate.
No worries. Better theirs than ours.
If News for Nerds still can't handle Unicode in 2015, I think the human race needs to pull in their horns, and stick to long baths and the companionship of bright-yellow rubber duckies.