Comment on why don't people say mega meters

bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• person@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  And yet we say megatons.

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  • bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    But only in regards of nuclear bombs. Maybe it’s because of the scientific origins of these fields. Probably the same reasons why Americans measure firearm munition in mm.

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    • ninja@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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      • evasive_chimpanzee@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        And 7.62 is just .30 caliber rebranded

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      • joel_feila@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        and the old gauge system for shotguns.

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      • RandomStickman@kbin.run ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Now get ready for the 7mm-08

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      • cheesymoonshadow@lemmings.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I’ve only recently gotten my foid card and am learning to shoot and that shit confuses me so much.

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    • David_Eight@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      But only in regards of nuclear bombs.

      And your mom (⁠⌐⁠■⁠-⁠■⁠)

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    • joel_feila@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      we do list volcanic eruptions in megatons of TNT. The makers of the first a bomb pick it since the largest explosion ever made by then was a ship full explosives and some had calculated how many tons of TNT that ship was carrying

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  • anguo@lemmy.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Instead of teragrams.

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• skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  megaton, megawatt, megapascal, megacandela (for military flares), megahertz, megajoule, megaohm, megabequerel

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  • pissclumps@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Megatron

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    • Kefass@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      That’s a lot of Trons

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      • metaStatic@kbin.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        That's bad comedy

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    • BackOnMyBS@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Megan

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      • metaStatic@kbin.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Damnit Meg

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• Turun@feddit.de ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  To be fair, mass is weird because the base unit is kg (yes, the name includes a prefactor). I have no idea how they managed to fuck it up that badly.

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  • someguy3@lemmy.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Apparently they were going to use gram for what we now call kg, but decided to make it kg. I expect it’s because we used grams so much for food.

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• gedaliyah@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Yes, I think it’s a question of use. I can’t think of many examples where you would quickly need to know the measurement to the nearest Mm. Maybe if for some reason you deal with a lot of lunar orbits? Diameters of exoplanets?

  Any earth distances we need to know with greater precision, and any stellar distances are probably better measured in light years, etc.

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  • southernbrewer@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Odometer readings

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    • pete_the_cat@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      “I’ve driven 112.326 megameters” takes the same amount of time to say as 112,326 kilometers. 🤷‍♂️

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