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microtherion
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New exoplanet found orbiting twin suns
In an US source, you can count yourself lucky if the distance is not given in “length of football fields” or “giraffes”.
OnlyMortal
on June 13, 2023
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I’ll just leave this here:
https://www.theregister.com/Design/page/reg-standards-conver...
phpisthebest
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That would be 1,077,047,953.603 football fields, or 387,737,263,297.2403 feet, or 1,163,211,789,891.721 hands
Freedom Units are the best units.
dylan604
on June 13, 2023
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I thought Freedom was measured in calibers.
mkaic
on June 13, 2023
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My go-to nonsensical sarcastic freedom unit is Bullet Velocities
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Football Field
localplume
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but it wouldn't? US astrophysicists and others use units like AU. and if they were using football fields, its to make it so people understand it better. AU is pretty hard to grasp for most people I'd imagine. the writer is American anyway.
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