Shrek nah to imperial then shrek yah with metric.
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[โ€“] 4 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

Kilometers are too small for our giant country.

Kilometers aren't the biggest measurement in metric though.

It goes: Kilometer x1000= Megameter x1000= Gigameter x1000= Terameter. A Terameter is about 10^12^ meter

Just as it goes smaller like: Milimeter /1000= Micrometer /1000= Nanometer /1000= Picometer

And even those are still not the biggest or smallest measurements possible in metric.

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  • [โ€“] 1 point 1 year ago

    That's true in theory, but if you talk about megameters to a European you'll get very weird looks.

    An engineer will understand what you mean, but still laugh at you.

    But it's a non-issue for anything on earth, where you'll have 40.000 kilometers at most. Not a lot of time is spent talking about x thousand kilometer.

    Any notion that a kilometer is "too small" is laughable.

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