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[โ€“] DicJacobus@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

BUT THIS IS HOW WE ALWAYS DID IT

[โ€“] thelittleerik@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Amerifats cant get over their imperialist england brain to work in tandem with rest of the world. It creates just enough division and tribality between the world the US to justify its colonial nature and settlement enterprise in the americas.

You cant bury your disgusting history.

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[โ€“] DahGangalang 3 points 1 month ago (2 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€“] Atomic@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 month ago

It's certainly a good observation. I would agree that a more practical way of measuring the vast distances is to up the scale. Giga, Terra, whatever.

A kilometer in space is nothing. It must be the equivalent of saying "it's only a million millimeter drive away"

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