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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Earth's circumference is 40 Mm. 1 AU is 14 Gm. I could get used to this.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The moon is 400Mm away. Never say thousand kilometers again, the mega is the way.

Imaging if we started saying millions of kilobytes instead of GB.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

The Andromeda galaxy is ~23.6 Zm away. The metric system reaches far.