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Pinusyesterday at 1:28 PM2 repliesview on HN

We _have_ standardized on Earth circumferences for length, only we divide by 40 million to make the numbers more sane, and got the measurement slightly wrong!


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croteyesterday at 1:57 PM

We should just redefine it to make the speed of light a nice even 300.000 km/s - we are so close already!

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Ekarosyesterday at 4:21 PM

How hard would it be to fix this? Could we theoretically add or subtract enough material or make whole thing slightly more dense or less dense to compensate?

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