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Some of my favorites: nanoacre = about 4 square millimeters microfortnight = about 1.2 seconds beard-second = 5-10 nanometers (depending on who you ask), or
by velcrovan 2y ago
Some of my favorites:
nanoacre = about 4 square millimeters
microfortnight = about 1.2 seconds
beard-second = 5-10 nanometers (depending on who you ask), or the length an average beard grows in one second
- liamN 2y agoI like going the other way, too. My personal favorite: kilosecond: 11.57 days and fun to say, but never useful: gigasecond: 31.68 years
- greggyb 2y agoI think you're confusing your kiloseconds with megaseconds. * 60 seconds per minute * 60 minutes per hour: 3600 seconds per hour * 1 kilosecond = 16 minutes and 40 seconds * 24 hours per day: 86,400 +/- 1 seconds per day * 1,000,000 / 86,400 ~= 11.57 I love giving metric-using friends a hard time whenever they criticize imperial units of measure. I always tell them that I will happily embrace metric when they give up their irrational attachment to an archaic system of time-telling.
- schubart 2y agoAnd a light foot is a nanosecond. Think about it…
- tutipop 2y agoa light nanosecond is a foot :)
- daynthelife 2y agoBeat me to it!
- __rito__ 2y agoYou will like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9eyFDBPk4Yw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9eyFDBPk4Yw
- anal_reactor 2y agoI think the beauty of "microcentury" is that things that take 50 minutes indeed feel like a "microcentury"
- eleveriven 2y agoThe feeling of how long certain tasks can feel!
- dingnuts 2y agomy mind immediately went to college classes, which were almost always exactly 1 microcentury perfect
- daynthelife 2y agoWorking in HFT, my favorite is 1 nanosecond ≈ 1 foot
- harrison_clarke 2y agograce hopper would carry around nanosecond-long wires, for demonstrations https://youtu.be/ZR0ujwlvbkQ?si=aAj2OkbS8cj_MeGo&t=2707 https://youtu.be/ZR0ujwlvbkQ?si=aAj2OkbS8cj_MeGo&t=2707
- cubefox 2y agoMy favorite from What if? (xkcd): 20 miles per gallon ≈ 0.1 mm² https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=1%2F%2820+mile%2Fgallon%29+to+mm%5E2 https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=1%2F%2820+mile%2Fgallo...
- volemo 2y agoAlso attoparsec [1] ≈ 3 cm. [1]: https://youtube.com/@attoparsec https://youtube.com/@attoparsec
- myself248 2y agoSaturating 100Mbps will move about 1TB/day.
- rzzzt 2y ago15 minutes = 1 centiday