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

In freedom units that's fast as fuck

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

[-] LanguageIsCool@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

The Space World uses km/s

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

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

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

It’s spelled Freedumb

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

PepsiCo presents Freedom Units (TM)

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

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

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

[-] SadSadSatellite@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 month ago

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

It's cheating to use footlongs, btw.

[-] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 month ago

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 month ago

How many bald eagles, though?

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

Depends on your deep frying equipment.

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

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

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

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

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

How does that just happen to be your username

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

Yeah, but that's moving TOWARDS earth, lol

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

In an uncontrolled re-entry

[-] LanguageIsCool@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Should tell this to that “gravity is weak” post

[-] Makeitstop@lemmy.world 22 points 1 month 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.

[-] MakkaPakka@lemm.ee 15 points 1 month ago

The distances of both voyager probes from earth are actually decreasing at the moment due to Earth's position in its orbit around the sun. NASA link with their distances

[-] hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 1 month ago

On average Earth's location is close to the middle of the sun, so it's still accurate to say it's getting further away from earth

[-] then_three_more@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

They're still moving away, it's just that at the moment the earth is moving towards them.

[-] LanguageIsCool@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

“Come back asshole”

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

yeeted by science

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

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

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

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

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

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

Thanks Mr. Voyager! Have a nice travel!

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

I too wish to flee the earth at KMS speeds.

[-] Psythik@lemm.ee 4 points 1 month 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.

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

Where no man has gone before . . . boldly.

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

Into that good night.

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

Living my dream.

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

Both of them!

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