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[–] [email protected] 23 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

0.63 Empire State Buildings. So yeah, quite a bit.

[–] [email protected] 55 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Americans will use anything but metric as a unit of measurement.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I always hate seeing that, then i remember i've used both football feilds and time to drive somewhere as units of distance. So yeah, we will use anything

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Time is a perfectly valid unit of distance. Just look at light years. On Earth, I mostly use the unit of distance me-minutes

Interestingly, analysing distance in me-minutes reveals that spacetime is not flat, because a distant location on the train line can be much closer to me than something 5 km away but far away from public transit.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Living in Michigan I show distance by pointing to spots on my hand.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Yo, same. The mitten makes it easy.

[–] Holyhandgrenade 2 points 5 months ago

A small boulder the size of a large boulder

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Then you should know better.