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Discuss.

>> No.4248674
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4248674

Oh boy, I love posting this.

>> No.4248690

>>4248674
> 18 hours
Surprised they didn't give the value in horsewalkleagues or something.

>> No.4248697

>Not knowing both

>> No.4248708
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4248708

This too

>> No.4248724

arbitrary discussion over arbitrary systems of measurement

>> No.4248726
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>>4248708
>Certain distance assuming speed

>> No.4248727

>>4248697
>needing to

>> No.4248729

Planck master race.

Any other system doesn't make physical sense.

>> No.4248730
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>>4248724
>Measurement
>Arbitrary

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>>4248729
>Measuring your cock size in Planck

>> No.4248735

>>4248730

>measurement
>not arbitrary

>> No.4248739

>>4248674
wait,

is it as wide as 4 football field wide or 4 football fields long

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>>4248735

>> No.4248754

Having two systems of units is as pointless as having two systems of units.

>> No.4248756

>>4248734
I want to use whole number >.>

>> No.4248785

>>4248708
Is that a really bad Photoshop?

Or have I just not left the house for too long to remember what the real world looks like?

>> No.4248793

>>4248785
I photoshopped it.

It used to say "3.5 hours away"

>> No.4248812
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>American Exceptionalism

Deal with it poor, weak, inferior countries.

>> No.4248815

>>4248812
Nice resolution. Did you eat all the bandwidth Amerifat?

>> No.4248820

>>4248667
He talks about how the imperial system makes ambiguous associations to tangible objects, and then goes on to show how you can add a prefix to what was originally an ambiguous association to a tangible object and it suddenly isn't ambiguous anymore. We've since made these values based on universal constants but they still match the old ambiguous measurements.

I've always said: why didn't they redefine the length of the meter (call it something else to prevent confusion) to make the speed of light something less arbitrary than the 2.99e8 shit we have now. You fuckers like the number 10, why not have made it 1 trillion distance/second units?

Also even the metric system hasn't figured out a better way than a 24-60-60 way of dividing time, and there still isn't much consistency in using radians vs. degrees.

This comic is wrong. The metric system is not perfect, nor is it completely intuitive. It's just better because it would make for a consistent world.

>> No.4248821

>>4248815

Government still have a waiting list for glasses? Europoor

>> No.4248832

>>4248820
Wow I should have proofread that. Sorry that it's probably hard to read and understand well.

>> No.4248833

>>4248821
>American
>Bringing up medical care

If all of your citizens were properly insured you would have to wait longer.

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>>4248812
>>4248812

>> No.4248845

it's because americans are stupid uncivilized barbarians.

old world: greece. center of learning and knowledge and civilization

new world: rome. disgusting vulger faggots who just hold orgies all day.

>> No.4248849

>>4248845
>Greeks
>Not holding orgies

>> No.4248882

>>4248833

In america we cast the failures down on the bottom rung of society where they belong. We dont take care of the losers. America is a country of winners. It does not bother me one bit that there are uninsured citizens in my country. I am proud to live in a place where I am free to be rich and free of their burden.

>> No.4248888

Anyone else ever notice that in America the largest unit of distance is the Football Field?

Seriously, every fucking time a documentary, magazine, newspaper, etc. talks about some large object, they'll always say "that's X football fields long!" It makes me want to murder all the idiots who actually need measurements put into sports terms because they were too retarded to do competently in school but they're fucking experts when it comes to FUTBAWL.