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[-] Atelopus-zeteki@fedia.io 37 points 1 year ago

For those who aren't used to thinking in km/s, this equates to 61,200 km/hour.

[-] SadSadSatellite@lemmy.dbzer0.com 26 points 1 year ago

In freedom units that's fast as fuck

[-] mmddmm@lemm.ee 31 points 1 year ago
[-] SadSadSatellite@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 1 year ago

Unfortunately, I don't live in the free world, I live in the "freedom" world. I have to convert km/h to as hell and km/s to as fuck.

[-] Clent@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 year ago

They forgot the (tm), i.e.; Freedom Units(tm)

[-] anomnom@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

It’s spelled Freedumb

[-] cram42@mander.xyz 1 points 1 year ago

PepsiCo presents Freedom Units (TM)

[-] Nurse_Robot@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Actually, in Freedom Units it's 2,040,000 blue whales per hour

Length of a blue whale: 30 meters 61,200 km / 0.03 km = 2,040,000

[-] spicytuna62@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Nope. You're off by a power of 10 because 30 meters is 0.03 km.

So it's 2,040,000 blue whales per hour. ;)

But in terms of miles an hour? About 38,000. Or, as the crow flies, LA to New York in 3 minutes and 51 seconds. That's less time than it takes to listen to the hit Madonna song "4 Minutes."

[-] Nurse_Robot@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Whoops, good catch. I definitely thought .03 and then just screwed it up anyway

[-] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 year ago

3 minutes and 51 seconds. That's less time than it takes to listen to the hit Madonna song "4 Minutes."

Unless we're talking the radio edit, of course. Otherwise, four minutes is also less time than 4 Minutes.

I really feel like freedom units should be hotdogs per second.

It's cheating to use footlongs, btw.

Hotdogs aren't standardized though. But I guess we could agree to use Kirkland Signature hotdogs, you know, the ones Costco sells for $1.50 + soda at the food court.

[-] PattyMcB@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

How many bald eagles, though?

[-] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 year ago

Depends on your deep frying equipment.

[-] PattyMcB@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I hear the secret sauce on Big Macs actually contains some bald eagle (allegedly)

[-] dohpaz42@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

If by “freedom units” you mean football fields, that would be roughly 109,361.33 ff/s.

[-] SadSadSatellite@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 1 year ago

Most Americans could probably use metric easily if they just remember a meter is about 180 5.56 NATO rounds wide. A kilometer is 111,111 9mm rounds.

Easy.

[-] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works -1 points 1 year ago

Why did you use communist units?

Use the .223 Remington round, which is the civilian version (i.e. freedom variant) of the 5.56 NATO round, and is what's generally used in the AR15.

I'll allow the 9mm because it's used by the FBI and many police departments, but a true patriot would use the .40 round, which is about the same size, just a little shorter, a little stockier, a little heavier, and a bit more gunpowder. So 98425 .40 rounds wide is one km, or round to 100k.

Use imperial rounds, not communist metric rounds.

[-] PattyMcB@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

109,361... that's fast AF, FFS!

[-] Condiment2085@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

How does that just happen to be your username

[-] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 year ago

And if you're still confused by these units, it's moving about as fast as the NASDAQ.

[-] PattyMcB@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Yeah, but that's moving TOWARDS earth, lol

[-] cm0002@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

In an uncontrolled re-entry

[-] Makeitstop@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago

Oh, sure, right now it's all about wanting to get out of here, but they'll come crawling back, looking for their creator so they can introduce their weird bald girlfriend.

[-] Rhaedas@fedia.io 9 points 1 year ago

"Oh, looks like my battery is low. Having troubling hearing you. Hello? Oh well, bye..."

[-] neuracnu@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 1 year ago

yeeted by science

[-] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

To get the feel of this speed, it's about 10 minutes of driving on a clear freeway, in one second.

[OCD folks do your thing (sigh) and remember I'm one of you, but I am not trying to be exact, just giving the general feel of it.]

[-] Etterra@discuss.online 9 points 1 year ago

I wish I could die alone in the vacuum of space.

[-] lowleveldata@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Thanks Mr. Voyager! Have a nice travel!

[-] Tracaine@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

I too wish to flee the earth at KMS speeds.

[-] Psythik@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

It's a good Lemmy app too. Has nearly all the features my favorite reddit app had (Relay).

My only complaint is that the app makes unintentional taps too easy. On far too many occasions I accidentally go to a community or a user's profile when I'm trying to get to the comments. It would be nice to have a tablet mode too.

[-] SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Living my dream.

[-] IhaveCrabs111@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago
[-] psycho_driver@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Where no man has gone before . . . boldly.

[-] Randelung@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Into that good night.

[-] Rokin@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

Both of them!

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