Why don't we say megameter or megagram?
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Vinge imagines spacefaring civs will talk about megaseconds, gigaseconds, because "years" is a planetary measurement
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So is meter. They've been moved into universal constants: n ticks of a cesium atom, the distance light moves in m ticks.
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The real trick is migrating kg off of the reference mass, which still needs to happen
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