E: /stoned
The distance that light travels in about a three hundred millionth of a second. Wait, that’s just the actual definition.
About as wide as my oversized fridge.
Can’t wait to get rid of that shit and have something that actually fits in my kitchen.
About the length of a golden retriever
The distance light travels when it goes one meter.
Like half a dude.
Wednesday dude or normal one?
like a Tuesday one
Weird frog dude
Some dudes are longer than others.
“I see yer mother’s been tellin’ ya stories about me ag’in, boy!”
look it’s not like there’s a titanium standard dude lodged somewhere in a vault in France, but I reckon we all know the difference between a short dude, a long dude, and a metric regular dude
“The length of the path travelled by light in vacuum during a time interval of 1/299792458 of a second, where the second is defined by a hyperfine transition frequency of caesium.”
This is the actual definition, but it’s also pretty weird.
And here I thought it was that sick of metal in the wall in France when it is 21 degrees C
They redefined it a few years ago to base all units on some objectively measurable natural constant. Because that stick of metal might still decay or warp or something and you don’t always want to travel to France when you want to know the length of a meter. Much easier to measure the atoms and light you have on hand.
Updating the kilogram standard took them forever because you need really reliable force measurement instruments and very precise calibration
How many midi-chlorians does 1 meter have tho…
It was defined as
one ten-millionth of the shortest distance from the North Pole to the equator passing through Paris.
The stick of metal in Paris is just so people don’t have to do measure the distance between the north pole and the equator each time they want to check their measuring tool.
Found the vampire.
Hey, just because I am Australian doesn’t mean I am a crime of nature. That is just our animals.
Australia, where even the animals are criminals.
Depends on the meter, dude. There are thermo-meters, speedo-meters, baro-meter…
You win.
3 1/3 Subway sandwiches
About twice as long as half of its length
The square root of a square meter
Meter‽ We are more than well acquainted.
take a meter stick, now cut it in half. glue it back together. a meter is probably a little bit longer than this since you lost some material cutting.
Take a really long rope and put one end on either pole of the Earth, and the other end on the equator. Use the shortest path, and make sure the rope is tight. No squiggles allowed! Chop that rope into exactly 10 000 000 equal parts. One of them is as long as a meter. Now you just need to find the right one.
Edit: more zeros.
Distance between pole and equator is… 10 km?
Good catch. I screwed up the zeros. Fixed it now.
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About this long holds palms one meter apart.
A bit more than 90 centimetres, a bit less than 110. Somewhere in that ballpark.
