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A metric ton would be more accurately called a megagram (Mg).
What Jesse is proposing here is a new prefix of skelegram to be 10,000 grams. That would also mean a skelemeter to be 10,000 m.
No no no no!
Skelegram is my startup that sends skeletons to people to their email address or physical address.
I thought it was a new social media platform focused on pictures of skeletons.
I really want skelemeter to be a word.
It rolls off the tongue.
Skelemeter…
This is my biggest complaint about SI, kg being the base mass unit with a heckin’ prefix.
Bring back the grave 🥲
I think he’s proposing a skele-ton which is 0.01 tons, (i.e. 10kg), not a skelegram which is 10,000g. A skele-gram in this case would be 0.01g.
Well a metric tonne is based on a prefix, so a prefix to that is a double prefix. Skelemegagram to suit that situation which is the wrong way to do it.
Sure, but the joke is skele-ton
where’s the prefix in “ton”/“tonne”?
An obsolete 10,000 prefix already exits (“myria-”) but Jesse’s prefix is a bit snappier.
Motion to bring “lakh” to the Westen world.
ahem… science, bitch
Speak French
I will use all the archaic measurement I want & you can’t stop me.
Who’s skeleton?
*skeletonnes
I see you.
I might pretend I didn’t. But I see you and I chuckled.
The SI base unit is actually the kilogram (despite naming), a metric tonne is actually a megagram lol.
Anyhow, if the prefix-less naming matched the base unit, 10 kg would be a “decagram”. As it is, it’s 10,000× the base of the naming system, and there’s no prefix on factors of 10 above 1000, so sadly there’s no way to name it neatly.
Edit: actually it looks the like the Greek for 10,000 is “myriad”, so it would be a myrigram. Dope!
Not only make more sense, it avoid errors. Imperial system don’t even make difference between mass and weight. Some confusion in the imperial system has already cost NASA several space probes. Imperial units are non linear and aleatoric values without any sense, using the measures of bodyparts of an King in the past, obsolete in science, mathematic and architecture. Used in Airlines and nautics, almost by tradition
Oh, the date thing. I hate it because it conflicts with rest of the world too 05/06/2024 causes lot of confusion since we can’t even know which system we are using. Thanks it only happens online not locally in my country
Even more annoying, because there’s a bunch of software with bad localisation where we sane DD/MM/YYYY and YYYY.MM.DD users are forced to see the abomination that is MM/DD/YYY and it leads to errors.
Yes, online it¡s better to write the month name to avoid confusion, because of 4 removed countries worldwide wich still use the imperial syste,
I needed way to long to get the actual point… Geez I need to get my shit together
centikilogram? thats double prefix
Centikilogram is 10^-2 x10^3 = 10 grams, a skeleton is 10Kg though, they meant that a skeleton aka centi-ton is 10kg, which is a 1DKg, D meaning 10 and K meaning 10^3 of course. Scalling units can multiply with each other since they are just numbers in disguise.
Centiton, which is very funny.
This is the most in character dialogue I’ve seen in this meme
So wait, you’re telling me that a Skele-ton would be roughly 20,000KG?
Skelepede
Hum… You mean “deca”?
1/100th of a ton = skele ton
Oh, ok. Now I understood it.
How much is a Skelemeter?
no. A skeleton is 1/100 of a ton. A decaton would be 10 tons.
A decakilogram would be 10 kg though. But fuck, that’s quite an unwieldy word.
Skelepede
SI units are fun!
My car needs 7 liters of gas per 100 km.
7 liters / 100 km =
7 dm³ / 100 km =
0.007m³ / 100,000 m =
0.000007 m² =
0.07 mm²The question what this area represents is left as an exercise to the reader.
Bonus trivia: The newest SI prefixes are only 2 years old:
- quetta (Q) = 1030
- ronna (R) = 1027
- ronto (r) = 10-27
- quecto (q) = 10-30
I know this is a joke, but could help myself: you can’t always just cancel units like this.
It’s more like 0.007 m3(fuel burned) / 100,000 m(travelled)
Can’t really cancel those.
The area of the base of a tube as long as the lenght of travel that would contain the volume of gasoline needed to travel said distance.
Go go gadget dong!
The question what this area represents is left as an exercise to the reader.
https://what-if.xkcd.com/11/ is relevant.
