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kuberoot@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

Because people weren’t traveling around the moon, mars, or the sun back then, they were traveling around the earth :V

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petrol_sniff_king@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
Ah, so it is arbitrarily human experience that defines these things, I see.

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- kuberoot@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.
  
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  - petrol_sniff_king@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    
    It’s all arbitrary one way or another,
    
    Exactly, yes.
    
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