Jot that down.
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How fast is a dumbass?
Not as fast as 2 dumbass
How fast can you throw?
Why would god use dumbasses as the standard unit of philosophy?
'Cause there's so many of them. It's like using fruit flies for biological research.
It's measuring speed, speed of light is 1 dumbass.
Which proves God is American (anything except metric)
I learned recently that it was the Babylonians who invented the hour and the minute as a unit of time, and they used base 60, which I thought was pretty neat. Then we created seconds and milliseconds in base 10.
IIRC, they picked 60 because it could be evenly divided into 1/2, 1/3, 1/4, 1/5, and 1/6 which allowed them to stick to whole numbers more easily.
If you use your thumb to count the sections of 4 fingers you get 12.
Then you hold up a finger on your other hand. When all 5 are up you have 60.
I have never accepted this explanation. Yes, using base 12 is logical and well documented. But that means you've got 12 on the other hand as well. 144 would've made more sense.
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Stubborn as a mule is mentioned in Psalms and Proverbs, so there is precedent.
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1 dumbass per... hour? Minute? Second? 🤷♂️
It's already the right unit. Like a watt is a joule/s
That /s had me looking for the joke for like 10 seconds
What are you, my 9th grade algebra teacher? GOSH!
Because we tried to make the meter one 40-millionth of the earths circumference, failed, and ended up at a 299792458th of the distance light travels in a 60th of a 60th of a 24th of the time earth doesn't take to make a full rotation.
This one's on us
Having said that, we're pretty lucky that using those pretty arbitrary values we ended up with a speed that you can approximate as 300 million m/s and be off by less than 0.1%.
My understanding is that the person proposing the meter's distance immediately caught their mistake but didn't bring it up because they didn't want people to think the system was flawed, not so much that the measurement was off.
At least one second has a simple origin, and totally wasn't back-defined in 1967
oh wait
The current and formal definition in the International System of Units (SI) is more precise:
The second [...] is defined by taking the fixed numerical value of the caesium (Cs) frequency, ΔνCs, the unperturbed ground-state hyperfine transition frequency of the Cs-133 atom, to be 9192631770 when expressed in the unit hertz, which is equal to s−1.[1]
The speed of light is a tautology. We define it via how many meters light travels in a second. And we define the meter by the same measure. It’s just the distance light travels in 1⁄299792458 Of a second.
The first rule of tautology club is the first rule of tautology club lol
It's so meta, even this acronym
c is a measurable constant, not some unit that is arbitrarily defined. Like Boltzmann's Constant, or the ground state hyperfine transition frequency of the Cesium-133 atom... it just... Is.
Therefore, it is a useful tool to define units. You claim it is a tautology because we write it in units of meters per second, while the meter is defined based on c. This is easily disproven, as you can represent the speed of light in any unit of velocity. It is a fundamental constant, derivable through experiment without any units a priori.
Ergo, it is 1
dumbass
1 c, yeah.
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