• 5714@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    3 months ago

    That is a bit unfair, in Europe we measure with the fraction of the earth’ circumference, so the meme go accordingly

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      3 months ago

      Sadly, incorrect:

      Since 2019 the metre has been defined as the length of the path travelled by light in vacuum during a time interval of 1/299792458 of a second

      Metre - Wikipedia

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        3 months ago

        That seems completely infeasible, how am I supposed to reach a proper haberdashery in the depths of deep space? Nobody has time for that nonsense.