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      6 months ago

      How is 100 miles long? It’s like an hour and a half.

      100 years is like 20,000 cannonball runs, of course it’s a long way!

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          You wouldn’t spend an hour and a half to visit me? That seems like you don’t like me very much.

          I have some family I visit for a weekend 2-3 times a year, a bit over 400 miles away. It’s a 5.5 hour trip I can knock out in a morning or after work.

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            It’s three hours round turn, that means I stay over night and that means it’s something that takes all weekend. There is a very limited number of people that I am willing to spend that much time for

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          I fairly often drive 50,000m/h, except on the autobahn. There I usually go about 120,000,000mm/h.

          And if I stack 1000 1cm³ blocks of water, the resulting 10m high column has a volume of 1l, weighs 1kg and exerts 100kPa of pressure on its base. And to heat it by 1°C requires 1kcal, while 1N would accelerate it by 1m/s every second.

          What I want to say is: Your point is stupid and your units are too.

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            And this is all broken up into decihour days, no? With each hour being made up of 100 centiminutes?

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              6 months ago

              Can you spot why years, months, days, hours and minutes are not SI units?

              This is an honest question. The SI units were chosen very carefully with regard to their human usability and scientific universality.