Count to a million

[Zyla Fae 5,405]

251917

 

I'm thinking of these SI prefixes we're using nowadays now that there's an implementation for them. At one point, the only one we really used was kilo- or 1,000. But now that computers are getting faster and more capable, we've expanded our SI vocabulary to the point that tera- is commonplace. My desktop has 1.6 terabytes of storage. Imagine if we used those prefixes in other applications. 

 

Like distance.

 

A meter is pretty easy to wrap your mind around: the rest of the world knows it, but for you fellow American types, it's about 40 inches - right over a yard or 3 feet. A kilometer is pretty easy to wrap your mind around too - just over a half a mile. 

 

What about a megameter? 1,000 kilometers. That would be like driving from Washington, DC to Bangor, Maine. From Salt Lake City to Albuquerque. From Los Angeles to Sacramento. Or From Amarillo to the Mexican Border at the Gulf of Mexico. For you, Rising, that's a drive all the way to Geneva.

 

A gigameter? 1,000 megameters or 1,000,000 kilometers. At the equator, the earth is 40,008 kilometers. So we'll call it 40 megameters. A string one gigameter long would be enough to wrap around the planet at the equator twenty-five times.

 

A terameter? 1,000 gigameters/1,000,000 megameters/1 billion kilometers. That is a round trip from the earth to the sun........

...

...

...

three times. And that's still only 90% of it. You'd make it 2/3 of the way back to the sun before you complete your terameter run. 

 

Aren't numbers aweseome?

This absolutely made my day.

[Kawaii Besu 28,011]

251913

 

Filly, what do you think I'm going to ask you?

 

Oh yeah, it's almost done. Just have to vector you, and it's done...

 

251918

[Overdrive 5,366]

251919

 

Valentine's Day is over for me in less than 3 hours. Just letting you know.

[Zyla Fae 5,405]

251.,920+

 

I almost forgot that was today

[Overdrive 5,366]

251921

[Zyla Fae 5,405]

251.,922+

[Overdrive 5,366]

251923

 

Rorri

[Zyla Fae 5,405]

251.,924+

 

Smash

 

 

yes?

Edited February 15, 2015 by Che-nips

[Overdrive 5,366]

251925

 

Hi

[Zyla Fae 5,405]

251.,926+

 

 

iHi

?puSup?

[Overdrive 5,366]

251927

 

Well, I'm in a bit of a jam right now.

[BastementSparkle 20,328]

251928

 

Hey.

 

 Is it a strawberry jam?

[Overdrive 5,366]

251929

 

No, it's a lot bigger of an issue, and I don't know what to do.

[Kawaii Besu 28,011]

251930

 

I HAB RETURND .

 

Bais!

[Zyla Fae 5,405]

251.,931+

 

What's wrong?

[BastementSparkle 20,328]

251932

 

Filleh!

 

 What is is Smash?

[Overdrive 5,366]

251933

 

Remember that whole thing about the transgendered guy?

[lomk 20,663]

251933

 

I'm back

 

*slumps over in near vegetative state*

 

I'm exhausted. 

 

Everything okay Smash?

 

I don't. What's the sitch in a nutshell?

Edited February 15, 2015 by Space Woona

[BastementSparkle 20,328]

251935

 

I remember.

 

 Hey Woona!

[Zyla Fae 5,405]

251.,935+

 

What about her?

[CandleCandleCandles 2,012]

251937

[Overdrive 5,366]

251938

 

She has a huge crush on me, and I don't feel the same way. I told her I wasn't interested, but it made her all depressed. I told her I'd think about it, and now she thinks we're an item, even though I'm just trying to be friendly.

 

Really bad time to be speedposting Candle.

Edited February 15, 2015 by Overdrive

[CandleCandleCandles 2,012]

251939

[Zyla Fae 5,405]

259.,940+

 

Why is it that I feel like every time candle or I post someone automatically assumes we're speedposting?

[CandleCandleCandles 2,012]

251941