POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : Time is marching on : Re: Time is marching on Server Time
29 Jul 2024 06:19:58 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Time is marching on  
From: Orchid Win7 v1
Date: 7 Apr 2012 15:17:03
Message: <4f8092af$1@news.povray.org>
On 07/04/2012 08:13 PM, Orchid Win7 v1 wrote:
> 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. ;-)

OMFG, I just had the coolest idea: Rather than calling it a 
picolightyear, we could call it a "warp"! :-D


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