How come people say 5,000 km and not 5 Mm?
why not just say millions of meters or Mega meters?

  • Björn Tantau
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    3510 months ago

    But only in regards of nuclear bombs. Maybe it’s because of the scientific origins of these fields. Probably the same reasons why Americans measure firearm munition in mm.

    • @ninja
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      1610 months ago

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    • @David_Eight
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      610 months ago

      But only in regards of nuclear bombs.

      And your mom (⁠⌐⁠■⁠-⁠■⁠)

    • @joel_feilaOP
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      210 months ago

      we do list volcanic eruptions in megatons of TNT. The makers of the first a bomb pick it since the largest explosion ever made by then was a ship full explosives and some had calculated how many tons of TNT that ship was carrying