At least is not mph, that shit makes no sense.
this post was submitted on 06 Jun 2025
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US miles, UK miles or nautic miles? Imperial units are always crap (feet/s ?)
feet/s is a gooner unit. Change my mind
Foot pound? 😏 Yeah, I'm hoping
The NASA crashed 2 Mars probes, proving that imperial units are crap.
m/s is the best, everyone know aprox. what is an meter and an second to know the velocity, but not so easy with km and a hour.. 50km/h seems slow, but not so 13 m/s.
Anything metric > anything imperial
femtometer per yottasecond
When this baby hits 8x10^8000000000 fs/Z you're gonna see some serious shit
The only metric time unit is seconds so km/h isn't metric (or even powers of 10)
Kilometer/revolutionary french decimal hours
Why not just go with the universal and unitless proportion of "c"?
Or, for your slowpokes, parts per million or billion of "c".
‰ per mille (thousand).
Or, for your slowpokes, parts per million or billion of “c”.
cc, or centiC
What about μc or nc, a bit umder 300m/s & 3m/s, respectively.
Microlights and nanolights. Love it.
Call me crazy but having to divide 60,000 by my speed so I can tell my mom I’ll be there in “3,600 seconds” is really annoying 😆
km/s
That's the same unit, with a decimal multiplier for fast things
m/h
h/s
I'm currently traveling through time at 0.00027̅ h/s.
Us joggers using min/km
yes, officer, this person over here
Fuck now I gotta run from the law as well
Hotter take: pronounce it KILL-o-meters and not kill-AH-meters.
Ki-lom-e-ter is best
Idk why my brain is the way it is, but I can't say "KILL-o-meters", it always comes out as "key-LO-meters"
That's good and all. But we should go deeper.
For instance, what's the conversion factor to planck lengths per unperturbed ground-state hyperfine transition of the caesium 133 atom (second) or maybe even per Planck time unit?
Miles "Tails" Persecond