which also means anywhere that sells them would advertise it as 1000 [GOLDEN PRESENTERS VOICE WITH HIGH REVERB] mW and I feel a lot of people wouldn’t know the difference.
It sounds exactly as cool as it is. 1000mW reads as 10^3 ×10^(-3)W, which reads pretty pointless. At some point in science you just write everything in scientific notation and remove the multipliers altogether.
You’re right, but for something like a consumer laser pointer that’s typically rated in mW it makes sense to write 1000 mW and not 1 W.
It makes clear how vastly different that is from the regular ones.
1000mW or simply 1W.
1000000 uWatt!
Damn, that’s a big number
but that doesn’t sound as cool
which also means anywhere that sells them would advertise it as 1000 [GOLDEN PRESENTERS VOICE WITH HIGH REVERB] mW and I feel a lot of people wouldn’t know the difference.
1000000μW!
Oh waow! It has the cool u! Must be even better than the other ones!
0.7376 ft lbf/s (foot pounds-force per second)
It just rolls off your tongue!
2.8e-7 kWh per second!
238920 µcal_15 °C/s (microcalories (15 °C) per second)
It sounds exactly as cool as it is. 1000mW reads as 10^3 ×10^(-3)W, which reads pretty pointless. At some point in science you just write everything in scientific notation and remove the multipliers altogether.
You’re right, but for something like a consumer laser pointer that’s typically rated in mW it makes sense to write 1000 mW and not 1 W.
It makes clear how vastly different that is from the regular ones.