Spyke
abbotsburyreply
lemmy.world

The only metric time unit is seconds so km/h isn't metric (or even powers of 10)

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That's the same unit, with a decimal multiplier for fast things

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Zerushreply
lemmy.ml

US miles, UK miles or nautic miles? Imperial units are always crap (feet/s ?)

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The NASA crashed 2 Mars probes, proving that imperial units are crap.

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m/s is the best, everyone know aprox. what is an meter and an second to know the velocity, but not so easy with km and a hour.. 50km/h seems slow, but not so 13 m/s.

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lemm.ee

Hotter take: pronounce it KILL-o-meters and not kill-AH-meters.

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Idk why my brain is the way it is, but I can't say "KILL-o-meters", it always comes out as "key-LO-meters"

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lemmy.world

Why not just go with the universal and unitless proportion of "c"?

Or, for your slowpokes, parts per million or billion of "c".

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lemmy.ml

Or, for your slowpokes, parts per million or billion of “c”.

cc, or centiC

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KeenFlamereply
feddit.nu

I just use % personally

How fast you are going as percent of c

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lemmy.world

That's a lot of leading zeroes. Or you have a really awesome motorcycle with rocket engines.

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It's just easiest, it's capped at c and 0 so all meters just need to go to 100.. If you don't want exact measurements you can always normalize the value

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