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[โ€“] DahGangalang@infosec.pub 4 points 5 days ago (3 children)

I have a chip on my shoulder about the metric system as it appears in sci-fi writing.

It drives me nuts that in books like The Expanse (and I think the Bobiverse and Andy Wier's works) that the writer will call distances in "thousands/millions of kilometers".

Really feels more reasonable to just go full send and call them megameters and gigameters, but maybe that's just my American non-metric mind trying to force full use of a system in a way those born to it don't actually do.

Anyway, thanks for coming to my Ted Talk.

[โ€“] Cassanderer@thelemmy.club 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Megameters just is fun to say, we could make it a thing, if enough use it it becomes proper.

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[โ€“] J92@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago

As a brit, the only thing I care about is the extra 68ml I get in my pint.

[โ€“] S_H_K@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 4 days ago

My favorite fact about the metric system that blows imperial believer's minds is that if you take a 1cm thick tube you put 1 liter of water it weights 1kilogram and it it 1 meter tall the measure.

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