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4 days agoI did not know their origin, that’s hilarious.
That explains why the people who designed the meter found it logical for it to represent a portion of Earth’s circumference (1/10 000 000 of the equator-pole distance)


I did not know their origin, that’s hilarious.
That explains why the people who designed the meter found it logical for it to represent a portion of Earth’s circumference (1/10 000 000 of the equator-pole distance)


Imagine using nautical kilometers, road kilometers, space kilometers, imperial kilometers, protestant kilometers…
Now please tell me there are no nautical feet, yards, inches and furlongs


Today I learn that Americans do not even use the nautical miles. You are not happy to have an imperial ton of non divisible units you also need to have fucking homonyms?
The conservative credo “the past defines the possible” or “nothing new is ever conceivable”
A new power learning the lessons from the past? Can’t have that!
“Occupation zone” means we are putting our boots, not our hands.