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[–] Acamon@lemmy.world 55 points 1 day ago (73 children)

Anyone come up with a good measure of distance that makes the speed of light a nice round number? I like the metric system, but the meter feels pretty arbitrary. We could do better!

[–] null@piefed.nullspace.lol 1 points 1 day ago (6 children)
[–] TheLeadenSea@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 day ago (5 children)

Year is an incredibly arbitrary length

[–] null@piefed.nullspace.lol 1 points 1 day ago

All lengths are arbitrary.

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