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I thought if the US ever switched from Imperial we should just switch to light-nanoseconds since its so close and then make fun of the metric folks for being Ea
by protomyth 4y ago
I thought if the US ever switched from Imperial we should just switch to light-nanoseconds since its so close and then make fun of the metric folks for being Earth-centric.
Units of weight / volume would be a pain though since a cubic light-second of water is about 7.118 US gallons and weighs (@1g) about 59.227 lbs at the melting point of ice.
Of course, we should still go with base 8 like the Yuki tribe (spaces between fingers instead of fingers because that's how many bottles you can carry).
- ArnoVW 4y agoLight nanosecond depends on 'second', which is litteraly earth centric :-)
- protomyth 4y agoLess Earth centric than the distance from the North Pole to the Equator. We'll still use seconds on Mars.
- dredmorbius 4y agoAnd you can use feet on Mars, despite there being no actual feet there. The second is 1/86,400 of a nominal Earth sidreal day. More or less. Slightly less with time as the Earth's rotation is in fact slowing.