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[–] vrighter@discuss.tchncs.de 52 points 11 months ago (4 children)

but why? you'll still measure things in football fields, elephants or "large boulders" so it won't affect you much

[–] CurlyMoustache@lemmy.world 34 points 11 months ago (4 children)

Rest of the world: meters, cm, mm

The US: gerbil teeth, lark tongues in aspic, toenail clippings on fire

[–] nyctre@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago

Pretty sure king crimson are English, still pretty accurate tho

[–] TacoNissan@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

Hm see, we don't have aspic, and I don't know what a lark is. But I definitely use bananas for scale

[–] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Metres*

Meter is a measuring device (like a rain meter)

Metre is a unit of measurement

[–] Bronco1676@lemmy.ml 19 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metre

Meter is seemingly the american spelling, it's also spelled meter in many european countries e.g. germany, netherlands

[–] tslnox@reddthat.com 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Metr in Czech.

We just have to be special. :-D

[–] crispy_kilt@feddit.de 2 points 11 months ago

Nah, it's like that on most (all?) Slavic languages. It's метр in Russian for example which is exactly metr just in Cyrillic.

[–] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 3 points 11 months ago

But well he translated the rest of his post into English

Why would we use the American spelling if they don’t like the unit

[–] BorgDrone@lemmy.one 15 points 11 months ago

I especially love it when they use the weight of an airplane as a comparison. “It’s as heavy as a Boeing 747”. Even if someone had an intuition about the weight of something that large, they would probably be wrong because aircraft are relatively light for their size, it helps when you need to fly. Everything in a plane is made to be as light as possible, so nothing on board of it would weigh as much as the non-aircraft equivalent you’d be familiar with.

[–] snaprails@feddit.uk 9 points 11 months ago

Excuse me but the correct SI units for length and area are double-decker buses and Waleses respectively ☺️