Comment on moms rule

slazer2au@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I am interested in learning about this metric time.

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  • Dasus@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Oh?

    “450 mothers ago” is roughly 363,500 megaseconds ago.

    To be fair, measuring that in moms seems more intuitive.

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    • needthosepylons@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      From your link, I rabbitholed to there and found gold

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    • letsgo@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      It’s also about the speed of light in millifortnights (2.9e8), within a 4% error margin.

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    • prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I’d like mothers represented metric tbh, I’m in a meeting and not able to do the math rn but if anyone else can oblige …

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      • Dasus@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        You can probably propose a new SI-base unit of “a mother”, but what does it measure?

        “Metric” just essentially comes from “metering”. People confuse “metric” with “decimal”, which is sort of the point of the person I replied to. While metric time technically exists insofar as you just use seconds as the base unit, omit minutes and hours and just do SI-prefixes, the French did also try decimal time, but it was just horrible.

        So if “mother” was the base unit and it measured something, in this instance time, the advent of agriculture was roughly four hectomothers ago. Or 0.4 kilomothers, if you will.

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      • angrystego@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Motheric

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  • thespcicifcocean@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    metric time actually was a thing, and it sucked so nobody used it.

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    • itslilith@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      It didn’t suck exactly, time is just so much more prevalent than other units that switching to a new system was even more contentious. Current time is just as arbitrary (although maximizing for maximum number of prime factors is pretty nice, even if it doesn’t mesh nicely with other metric units)

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      • Overshoot2648@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Metric really missed out by not being dozenal. SMH

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  • bluewing@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The French tried to impose “metric” time way back in the day. Even they learned that was a bad idea and quietly dropped it. The solar system seems to prefer it’s base12 time.

    I think it maybe helped give rise the the saying: “The French follow no one. And no one follows the French.”

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• dnick@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  They were discussing converting the AU to 1 ‘your mom’ as a better frame of reference, but France wouldn’t sign on

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• Bearlydave@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  What is the conversion from imperial mother to metric mother? About 1:1.26?

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