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[–] 24 points 2 years ago (12 children)

I am interested in learning about this metric time.

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  • [–] 19 points 2 years ago (7 children)

    Oh?

    "450 mothers ago" is roughly 363,500 megaseconds ago.

    To be fair, measuring that in moms seems more intuitive.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (4 children)

    I’d like mothers represented metric tbh, I’m in a meeting and not able to do the math rn but if anyone else can oblige …

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    You can probably propose a new SI-base unit of "a mother", but what does it measure?

    "Metric" just essentially comes from "metering". People confuse "metric" with "decimal", which is sort of the point of the person I replied to. While metric time technically exists insofar as you just use seconds as the base unit, omit minutes and hours and just do SI-prefixes, the French did also try decimal time, but it was just horrible.

    So if "mother" was the base unit and it measured something, in this instance time, the advent of agriculture was roughly four hectomothers ago. Or 0.4 kilomothers, if you will.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago* (1 child)

    Mother as a unit of time.

    Ty

    Edit the mother epoch presumably is the same epoch as all time, just … related to the mothers as above.

    Ty

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    But see we already got the base unit of a second for time. But for generations, perhaps?

    One kilomother would've been the early modern human, roughly. Ten kilomothers ago homo sapiens was just coming into being. A hundred kilomothers ago homo erectus would've just been coming into existence. A megamother ago we would've been diverging into great apes.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    metric time actually was a thing, and it sucked so nobody used it.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    It didn't suck exactly, time is just so much more prevalent than other units that switching to a new system was even more contentious. Current time is just as arbitrary (although maximizing for maximum number of prime factors is pretty nice, even if it doesn't mesh nicely with other metric units)

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago

    The French tried to impose "metric" time way back in the day. Even they learned that was a bad idea and quietly dropped it. The solar system seems to prefer it's base12 time.

    I think it maybe helped give rise the the saying: "The French follow no one. And no one follows the French."

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