Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-29943340-20180513003841/@comment-29943340-20180514233131

InsaneBurrito wrote: ExtraWeesee wrote: InsaneBurrito wrote: I think the trollface shape is just uneccesary.

Also, how much should a "unit" be?

A light-millisecond might work. If we know how fast it is.

So let's calculate it!

132450226616131000000000000000 metres is the estimated size of our universe according to this article I read along with some conversion of light years to metres. Let's say that's the size of the Trolliverse too. If it took about 10 minutes to travel across this universe, the speed of light would be 493805000000000000000000000 (over 493 septillion) miles per hour. Holy guacamole.

In a millisecond, that Captain Falcon-scaring speed would travel (drumroll please)...

137 quintillion miles. Nope. Try something smaller. A light yoctometer must be small, right?

220 miles (or meters, I forgot the calculation exactly). Not enough for galactic measurement.

After some tinkering the light-microsecond (the weegee light-microsecond), which is about two hundred and twenty quadrillion and seven hundred and fifty one trillion kilometers, seems to shine the most. It's not as big as an entire galaxy but seems good enough. (Our galaxy is about 5 weegee light-microseconds.)

It's final. The unit shall forever be the distance traveled by Weegee Light in one microsecond.

wait a minute. I did all this math for a site about an old 4chan meme. I bet my mom will be proud. I don't want to use light-speed measurements for a number of reasons. I was hoping we could find some kind of galactic structure (you know, a galaxy) to agree on, which you kind of did except with light-speed.

Azure the Serval wrote: United 'Gees Gal. = -1,-1,-1? I don't think there should be any galaxy THAT close to the Isles. I'm thinking they have about the distance of 3 or 4 galaxies from any galaxy. Light speed can be standardized with math. A galaxy's size can't, because galaxies hugely fluctuate in size, some have trillions of stars while others have star counts in the hundred millions. That's why I said average size. I was trying to make this simple, but if you insist on standardizing with math, and since you already put this much work in (though it will need to be double checked), then I suppose a light microsecond could be used as a unit.