Comment on Meanwhile in America

• ms_lane@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  What is this commie ‘meter’?

  Uh, it’s the length a photon travels under vacuum during a time interval between two hyperfine ground states of caesium-133 divided by 299792458⁠. Duh.

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  • TabbsTheBat@pawb.social ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Mm science :3 I prefer to think of a meter as roughly 2 light nanoseconds

    I love the fact that imperial is legally defined in it’s relation to metric btw :3. Like the US uses metric they just have to abstract it for some reason

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    • HikingVet@lemmy.ca ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Yeah, and you can get Americans to crash out over it.

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  • sundray@lemmus.org ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Ask a silly question… 😜

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