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Originally Posted by Rockin Robbins
A meter is a measurement drawn up by arrogant Frenchmen, thinking that measuring things for the use of man should have their basis in measurements of dead things. Like the planet Earth. They carefully measured the circumference of the Earth, took a fraction of that and called it (ta da!!!!!) the meter. Made a platinum bar they put in some vault as the arbiter of the new unit. Imagine, people who liked to style themselves "humanists" dehumanizing the entire measurement system! Makes sense. To the ancient Greeks man was the measure of all things. To the French of the time man was only raw material for the guillotine.
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Reading this post because I'm looking for more info about measuring distances in SH4. And suddenly I find myself in another dimension.
Brilliant text!
