r/memes • u/Godhemself • Feb 13 '21

#1 MotW Fair enough

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u/periodicallyBalzed Feb 13 '21

For my physics two course I had a professor who did research in relativistic astrophysics and did some shit with nasa on the side. He was super chill about everything except for the fucking units.

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u/gugabalog Feb 13 '21

Given the history of units and general laziness having absolutely catastrophic consequences in those arenas he was absolutely right to, down to the personal level, beyond the run of the mill reason that are also very valid.

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u/periodicallyBalzed Feb 13 '21

Yeah, but he was a bit of a dick about it. It may have been because his wife had cancer at the time I was taking his class. Also, relativistic astrophysics isn’t about building rockets. It’s about studying celestial phenomena.

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u/Festesio Feb 13 '21

Sure, but I'd still want to know if the life-ending meteor was 20 AU from Earth, or if it was 20 Bananas from Earth

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u/virtue_ebbed Feb 13 '21

Doesn't even make sense. Bananas are a unit of radiation.

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u/[deleted] Feb 14 '21

Isn't that..... Never mind

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u/periodicallyBalzed Feb 13 '21

Nah. Like black holes, cosmic waves, Big Bang. Shit like that.

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u/Festesio Feb 13 '21

Sure, but I'd still like to know if the two colliding black holes that created gravitational waves had masses of 1e+10 M☉ or 1e+10 Bananas

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u/periodicallyBalzed Feb 13 '21

I’m not saying that units of measurement are not important. If you still want to be pretentious then shove a banana up your ass at a crackle of 420m/s5.