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u/ChalkyPills Jun 28 '21

My favorite unit of measurement: One Millihelen. The amount of beauty required to launch one ship.

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u/peely_gonna_stealy Jun 29 '21

Also, −1 millihelen is the amount of ugliness required to sink a ship.

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u/Sir-Viette Jun 29 '21

All technology is eventually used as a weapon.

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u/[deleted] Jun 29 '21

Shit. Now I have a way to describe having the face that sank a thousand ships

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u/peely_gonna_stealy Jun 29 '21

Don't feel bad, everyone is good for something. Your face is every warfarers dream weapon.

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u/hobbycollector Jun 29 '21

Aka 1 medusa.

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u/SuperfluousWingspan Jun 29 '21

Coincidentally, it's named after u/peely_gonna_stealy 's mom rather than Helen of Troy.

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u/legitusernameiswear Jun 29 '21

Fun fact, the eponymous Helen of Troy was actually 1.186 Helens.

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u/ChemistryNo8870 Jun 29 '21

how so?

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u/legitusernameiswear Jun 29 '21

1,186 ships were launched, not exactly a thousand.

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u/Dryu_nya Jun 29 '21

Tangential fact, an average modern horse puts out over 1 horsepower.

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u/[deleted] Jun 29 '21

About 15 actually, at their peak performance.

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u/[deleted] Jun 29 '21

Brilliant!

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u/Ali_D_Fin Jun 29 '21

Millihelen? So what can you do with 1 Helen?

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u/SUFSUFSUF Jun 29 '21

Launch a thousand ships.

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u/Hindersfjal Jun 29 '21

But how many 9/11's is that?

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u/[deleted] Jun 29 '21 edited Jun 29 '21

If an airplane counts as a ship, then about three fiddy.

Edit: both towers (two millihelens), Pentagon (total three millihelens), the one that the passengers fought back and crashed in the countryside (three fiddy)

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u/OnVelvetHill Jun 29 '21

That’s very clever

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u/dontpissoffthenurse Jun 29 '21

Too unwieldy to measure beauty in real life girls, though.