The French tried to impose “metric” time way back in the day. Even they learned that was a bad idea and quietly dropped it. The solar system seems to prefer it’s base12 time.
I think it maybe helped give rise the the saying: “The French follow no one. And no one follows the French.”
The lengths Americans will go to in order not to use the metric system is insane.
I am interested in learning about this metric time.
metric time actually was a thing, and it sucked so nobody used it.
The French tried to impose “metric” time way back in the day. Even they learned that was a bad idea and quietly dropped it. The solar system seems to prefer it’s base12 time.
I think it maybe helped give rise the the saying: “The French follow no one. And no one follows the French.”
Oh?
“450 mothers ago” is roughly 363,500 megaseconds ago.
To be fair, measuring that in moms seems more intuitive.
It’s also about the speed of light in millifortnights (2.9e8), within a 4% error margin.
What is the conversion from imperial mother to metric mother? About 1:1.26?