Comment on moms rule

• needthosepylons@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  From your link, I rabbitholed to there and found gold

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• letsgo@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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 ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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 ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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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    • prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Mother as a unit of time.

      Ty

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      • Dasus@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        But see we already got the base unit of a second for time. But for generations, perhaps?

        One kilomother would’ve been the early modern human, roughly. Ten kilomothers ago homo sapiens was just coming into being. A hundred kilomothers ago homo erectus would’ve just been coming into existence. A megamother ago we would’ve been diverging into great apes.

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