• Something Burger 🍔@jlai.lu
    162·
    10 hours ago

    15.7 billion miles (168 AU)

    Americans will convert their miles to every yee yee ass unit under the sun before using metric.

    • EzTerry@lemmy.zipEnglish
      22·
      9 hours ago

      To be fair AU means more to me than miles or km in this case… 168 times further from us than we are to the sun.

      But since you want metric ~25.1 terameters.

      • Threeme2189@lemmy.zip
        1·
        39 minutes ago

        But since you want metric ~25.1 terameters.

        You think you’re being witty, but you’ve just unintentionally shown why the metric system is so good.

        25.1 terameters => 25,100 gigameters => 25,100,000 kilometers.

        Easy as pie.

    • Wolf314159@startrek.website
      4·
      9 hours ago

      At that scale meters and miles are pretty close with respect to orders of magnitude, which is why practically everyone talks about these scales in AUs regardless of what units they actually used to do the science.