POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : Time is marching on : Re: Time is marching on Server Time
29 Jul 2024 06:14:10 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Time is marching on  
From: Orchid Win7 v1
Date: 7 Apr 2012 15:13:43
Message: <4f8091e7$1@news.povray.org>
On 07/04/2012 07:11 PM, Warp wrote:
>    I have decided to start using megaminutes instead of years (one megaminute
> is approximately 1.9 years) and picolightyears instead of kilometers (one
> picolightyear is approximately 9.5 km or 5.1 nautical miles).

Megaminutes sounds cool. Picolightyears is just too unwieldy.

Then again, people measure electrical inductance in "henrys" rather than 
"square meter kilograms per square second square ampere" for a reason. ;-)


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