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BakerBagel@midwest.social 2 months agoWhy use a ratio of the length of the Earth? Why not the Moon? Or the Sun? Or Mars?
Comment on Fictional
BakerBagel@midwest.social 2 months agoWhy use a ratio of the length of the Earth? Why not the Moon? Or the Sun? Or Mars?
kuberoot@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
Because people weren’t traveling around the moon, mars, or the sun back then, they were traveling around the earth :V
petrol_sniff_king@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
Ah, so it is arbitrarily human experience that defines these things, I see.
kuberoot@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
Yeah, in history we’ve really been ignoring the experiences of the sunwalkers, but thankfully society is leaving those prejudices in the past now.
It’s all arbitrary one way or another, but the meter was (seemingly) chosen for a specific purpose, creating a unit based on a good and verifiable frame of reference (though probably not as absolute as people thought back then), while also having 1 meter be a convenient and useful measure on a human scale.
petrol_sniff_king@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
Exactly, yes.