Thank You.zeezrom wrote:I will take on the moderator's duty and make Ludwigm's post safe for the U.S. audience.ludwigm wrote:... ft ...
In the meantime I learned that the speed of light is 1.8026175 * 10^12 furlongs per fortnight.
And as for very long distances we use lightyear, for extremely short distances we should use beard-second, which is defined as the length an average beard grows in one second.
And before somebody sentence this comment as totally off topic...
In Doctor Faustus, Christopher Marlowe wrote about Helen of Troy "the face that launched a thousand ships".
The unit of beauty is Helen.
So, 1 millihelen is the amount of beauty needed to launch a single ship.







