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Highway engineers like Planck units because, like the speed of light, the energy capacity of a typical car’s gas tank is 1.
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http://www.rogermwilcox.com/Planck_ruler.html
I can’t believe I get to share this old website and have it be relevant for once!
Archive link because it didn’t work for me.
Scientific notation is great and all but sometimes you just need a bunch of zeroes in the number to really hammer in how big/small something is.
Still saner than imperial
Love the new speed limit, especially if the tolerances of +/- 3 stay the same.
But negative speeds are dangerous!
Love also CGS system for electrical related stuff…
Battery rated for 0.3836g1/2c1/2s−1, capacity 3,236,000,000,000g1/2c3/2s−1
