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submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Edit: Alt Text: Speed limit c arcminutes^2 per steradian.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (5 children)

If we just used watts life would be so much easier.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (4 children)

The beauty of SI units is you just add or remove zeroes.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Unless you're converting seconds to minutes, hours, days, years, etc.

Then you get things like watt hours. Or light years.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Which is why neither are SI-units

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

The Hives were right, we need to convert to the metric system for time.

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