22nd February 2004, 8:58 PM
1,000 Terameters is 1 Petameter, duh. Further more, it's also 1,000,000 gigameters, which is 1,000,000,000 megameters, which is 1,000,000,000,000 kilometers. See? The conversions are EXACTLY like all other metric conversions. Also, data is measured metrically, the most basic unit of which is the bit or the byte. Byte is rather arbitrary, but bit is a fundamental unit that actually can't be divided further. You won't ever hear about a centibit.
You see, THAT'S why metric is so great. The conversions are just THAT easy. I didn't need to remember a thing except what name is higher or lower than the other and the fact that adding or taking away a few zeros did the job and boom, converted.
"Charm"? Ya know, I don't use measurement systems because they are charming ABF...
Sure it'll be weird, but it's gotta be done sometime. Why not now? Well, yeah, I know why not NOW. But, you know later, when our economy ISN'T in the toilet we should do it asap.
I say it HAS to be done sometime because it DOES have to be done sometime. PROGRESS will not wait for those who don't adapt, right ABF and your low resolution which SUCKS? And now I'll shout the word science. SCIENCE!
Oh yes, and I'm only suggesting changing public thought, which doesn't cost much, and leaving the road signs alone for the time being. That'll come later, after the next generation has been taught to use metric and say "why don't we get rid of those old road signs?". You see? It's BULLET PROOF!
You see, THAT'S why metric is so great. The conversions are just THAT easy. I didn't need to remember a thing except what name is higher or lower than the other and the fact that adding or taking away a few zeros did the job and boom, converted.
"Charm"? Ya know, I don't use measurement systems because they are charming ABF...
Sure it'll be weird, but it's gotta be done sometime. Why not now? Well, yeah, I know why not NOW. But, you know later, when our economy ISN'T in the toilet we should do it asap.
I say it HAS to be done sometime because it DOES have to be done sometime. PROGRESS will not wait for those who don't adapt, right ABF and your low resolution which SUCKS? And now I'll shout the word science. SCIENCE!
Oh yes, and I'm only suggesting changing public thought, which doesn't cost much, and leaving the road signs alone for the time being. That'll come later, after the next generation has been taught to use metric and say "why don't we get rid of those old road signs?". You see? It's BULLET PROOF!
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)