I like to think of the speed of light relative to the total distance travelled in your car. 300Mm~ isn't too uncomon to see on some odometers. If after driving a car for 15 years you hit 300Mm, you've travelled the distance that light passes in one second :-).
In properly metricated countries, do most people use Mm or something like "thousands of km" to show distance to Mm accuracy? I think that it seems like a very handy unit. Cheers, Teran PS: In a church service recently someone was giving a statistic that the odds of something were 1^167 or something. I corrected him saying that it was 1*10^167, but I'm not sure if he understood the real difference. Powers of 10 are fun :-). On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 12:25, Pierre Abbat <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Sunday 29 March 2009 00:09:09 Jeremiah MacGregor wrote: >> I think you would have been more effective if you had interrupted him >> during his sermon and gave him the correct value. This way the whole >> congregation would have heard you as well. > > He talks fast, and I can't interrupt him. I can't even join a conversation > between two people who talk past me with no pauses. > >> What was his response to what you did tell and show him? > > Don't remember. I had to find several people and tell them various things, and > I kept running around only to find each one in conversation with someone > else. > > Pierre > >
