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Americans will use any unit of measurement, as long as it's not metric! (yes, yes, shamelessly stolen from: https://old.reddit.com/r/BrandNewSentence/comments/

Americans will use any unit of measurement, as long as it's not metric! (yes, yes, shamelessly stolen from: https://old.reddit.com/r/BrandNewSentence/comments/tv9yv6/a_sinkhole_roughly_the_size_of_six_to_seven/ https://old.reddit.com/r/BrandNewSentence/comments/tv9yv6/a_... )

blululu 3y ago
Astronomical Units and Lightyears do just fine. Maybe the rest of the world will try them someday though, I guess terameters and petameters are useful if you need to know how many microns it is to Jupiter.
- Someone 3y ago
  A light year is 9.46×10^¹⁵m. I think rounding that to 10¹⁶m (ten petameter) is fine for armchair astronomers. ‘Real’ astronomers like to use the parsec, too (about 4.2 light years, IIRC)
- AA-BA-94-2A-56 3y ago
  AU is also very easy for me to understand as a lay person.
ezequiel-garzon 3y ago
Thanks, that's awesome! Adding the original tweet: https://twitter.com/ralphium/status/1160242266902061056 https://twitter.com/ralphium/status/1160242266902061056
- smcl 3y ago
  See also: the large boulder the size of a small boulder https://twitter.com/SheriffAlert/status/1221881862244749315 https://twitter.com/SheriffAlert/status/1221881862244749315
  - spuz 3y ago
    I know this sounds crazy but it kind of makes sense to me. It's a large boulder in the context of things you might find obstructing the road, but it's a small boulder in the context of all boulders. Still pretty hilarious to read.
    - smcl 3y ago
      Yeah after seeing it so many times a "large boulder the size of a small boulder" is just the size of the boulder in the picture of that tweet to me :) But I think it was a typo, and they meant to say "A large boulder the size of a small car"
    - ithkuil 3y ago
      Yours was a long comment the size of a short comment :-)
hackernewds 3y ago
How many Rhode Islands is it though?
- ajsnigrutin 3y ago
  How many libraries of congress can you fit on this usb flash drive?
Zobat 3y ago
https://twitter.com/TakeThatBro/status/1636800077925580809 https://twitter.com/TakeThatBro/status/1636800077925580809 NSFA (not safe for Americans, at least Americans at work).

blululu 3y ago

Astronomical Units and Lightyears do just fine. Maybe the rest of the world will try them someday though, I guess terameters and petameters are useful if you need to know how many microns it is to Jupiter.

Someone 3y ago
A light year is 9.46×10^¹⁵m. I think rounding that to 10¹⁶m (ten petameter) is fine for armchair astronomers. ‘Real’ astronomers like to use the parsec, too (about 4.2 light years, IIRC)
AA-BA-94-2A-56 3y ago
AU is also very easy for me to understand as a lay person.

ezequiel-garzon 3y ago

Thanks, that's awesome! Adding the original tweet: https://twitter.com/ralphium/status/1160242266902061056 https://twitter.com/ralphium/status/1160242266902061056

smcl 3y ago
See also: the large boulder the size of a small boulder https://twitter.com/SheriffAlert/status/1221881862244749315 https://twitter.com/SheriffAlert/status/1221881862244749315
- spuz 3y ago
  I know this sounds crazy but it kind of makes sense to me. It's a large boulder in the context of things you might find obstructing the road, but it's a small boulder in the context of all boulders. Still pretty hilarious to read.
  - smcl 3y ago
    Yeah after seeing it so many times a "large boulder the size of a small boulder" is just the size of the boulder in the picture of that tweet to me :) But I think it was a typo, and they meant to say "A large boulder the size of a small car"
  - ithkuil 3y ago
    Yours was a long comment the size of a short comment :-)

hackernewds 3y ago

How many Rhode Islands is it though?

ajsnigrutin 3y ago
How many libraries of congress can you fit on this usb flash drive?

Zobat 3y ago

https://twitter.com/TakeThatBro/status/1636800077925580809 https://twitter.com/TakeThatBro/status/1636800077925580809 NSFA (not safe for Americans, at least Americans at work).