Yes, it’s from a book called “Uncle John’s Bathroom Reader” and that book was resting on a closed toilet seat in a nation that only kind of uses the metric system in certain situations… however, you’d be surprised how much you can learn after a single visit to any local fast-food joint!
In what context do people use metric units of length larger than a kilometer? 🤨
When measuring my dick.
Well, in Sweden we typically use miles (the matric variant, ie. 10km) to describe distance by car.
Megameter, gigameter, and terameter are occasionally used in astronomy and Earth science, though units like AU and light-year are usually preferred.
Here’s an example of megameter being used. https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abd0312
Multiple kilometers for example.
Woah
Why this year I drove 1.5 Megameter by car
Technically you can say that, I just don’t remember ever hearing it in any context, not even space travel.
Kilo just means 1,000, a kilo meter is just 1,000 meters. That last point is simply stupid conjecture by the author, and unlike the metric system, isn’t well thought out.
You could measure things in kilo miles if you want…
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