minus-square@pHr34kYlink20•10 months agoIt doesn’t explicitly say it, but that redefines the second to be 1/100,000th of a day. Doing that would break everything. That said, I wish speed limits were in m/s. It makes more sense to me.
minus-square@UltravioletlinkEnglish14•edit-210 months agoMiles or kilometers per hour makes sense in the context of travel, you can very easily estimate how long it’s going to take to get somewhere.
minus-square@calcopirituslink3•10 months agoIronically, km/h is better for estimation because hours are 3600 seconds. If an hour were 1000 seconds or whatever, it would barely take more effort to calculate with m/s
minus-square@pHr34kYlink1•edit-210 months agoI was thinking about estimating stopping distances and reaction times. The number of metres you cover every second becomes important then.
minus-square@joel_feilalink2•10 months agoyeah, there was a point in time when we could have. Just now our standards are to ingrained
It doesn’t explicitly say it, but that redefines the second to be 1/100,000th of a day.
Doing that would break everything.
That said, I wish speed limits were in m/s. It makes more sense to me.
Miles or kilometers per hour makes sense in the context of travel, you can very easily estimate how long it’s going to take to get somewhere.
Ironically, km/h is better for estimation because hours are 3600 seconds. If an hour were 1000 seconds or whatever, it would barely take more effort to calculate with m/s
I was thinking about estimating stopping distances and reaction times. The number of metres you cover every second becomes important then.
yeah, there was a point in time when we could have. Just now our standards are to ingrained