Do you think they'd get mad if I ask them to fly 90 feet higher?pic.twitter.com/K9uRgmmG5I
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At least when they fly 33000 feet I can pretend that aviation doesn't still use a unit of measurement based on a king saying "you know what they say about a guy with big feet"
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Regular reminder that the meter is a bullshit arbitrary unit that can't actually be derived from anything else. Even the original (flawed) definition of 1/10,000,000 of the circumference of the Earth isn't something a normal person could measure. Should have been based on gravity
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Love your tweets but 1) was based on "which they defined as equal to one ten-millionth of the distance between the North Pole and the Equator" (i.e. not circumference of earth) and 2) is currently defined using the speed of light (which was of course based on the first def.)
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Yup, was mistaken on that. And yeah it's currently based on the speed of light but that is 1) Impossible for a normal human to measure 2) Defined as an arbitrary fraction meant to keep the definition as the same as when it was a stick in Paris
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Surely we can define it in units of banana for scale?
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I will absolutely sign any petition that redefines the meter as a fraction of bananas for scale
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But the earth's gravity doesn't have the same strength everywhere on the surface.
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Shhhhhh it's fine
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No more arbitrary than seconds in that regard…
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Yeah but seconds get a pass because base 12
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