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Americans will use any unit of measurement, as long as it's not metric!

(yes, yes, shamelessly stolen from: https://old.reddit.com/r/BrandNewSentence/comments/tv9yv6/a_... )

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Thanks, that's awesome! Adding the original tweet: https://twitter.com/ralphium/status/1160242266902061056

See also: the large boulder the size of a small boulder https://twitter.com/SheriffAlert/status/1221881862244749315

I know this sounds crazy but it kind of makes sense to me. It's a large boulder in the context of things you might find obstructing the road, but it's a small boulder in the context of all boulders. Still pretty hilarious to read.

Yours was a long comment the size of a short comment :-)

Yeah after seeing it so many times a "large boulder the size of a small boulder" is just the size of the boulder in the picture of that tweet to me :)

But I think it was a typo, and they meant to say "A large boulder the size of a small car"

Astronomical Units and Lightyears do just fine. Maybe the rest of the world will try them someday though, I guess terameters and petameters are useful if you need to know how many microns it is to Jupiter.

A light year is 9.46×10^¹⁵m. I think rounding that to 10¹⁶m (ten petameter) is fine for armchair astronomers.

‘Real’ astronomers like to use the parsec, too (about 4.2 light years, IIRC)

AU is also very easy for me to understand as a lay person.

https://twitter.com/TakeThatBro/status/1636800077925580809

NSFA (not safe for Americans, at least Americans at work).

How many Rhode Islands is it though?

How many libraries of congress can you fit on this usb flash drive?

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