Unless they’re american, then it’ll be built in freedom units.
kubofhromoslav@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Modern engineer would built an aquaduct in kilometers, not miles 😅
piccolo@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
Will be built in cheeseburgers and carrying stolen oil.
MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 8 months ago
Interesting (scribbles on clipboard)…and for how many football fields would it span, exactly? And weigh how many Ford F150s?
kubofhromoslav@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Hopefully it would have better logistics than Martian probe…
djsaskdja@reddthat.com 8 months ago
They can build it in kilometers all they want. Plenty of people will still measure it in miles.
Lembot_0006@programming.dev 8 months ago
Roman engineers most probably never heard about miles too.
mkwt@lemmy.world 8 months ago
millia pasuum, literally “1,000 paces,” was a common unit of measure in the empire, and the basis of various modern miles. It was slightly shorter than the modern statute mile.
Klear@quokk.au 8 months ago
Interesting. Never realised that “mile” just means “thousand” (though it is kinda obvious in retrospect). And since the modern mile is 1760 yards, a kilometre is more of a mile than the actual mile.
GraniteM@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Yeah, assuming that a yard is meant to approximate the stride of an adult human, who’s the Goliath-sized motherfucker with the 5’ 3" stride who took a thousand steps and called that a mile?