• Grimy@lemmy.world
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            There are probably models that can act as repeaters. Isn’t the 1 mile range for fiber optic wired ones? You can control a drone by satellite if you want to.

            Does anybody here actually think drone swarms aren’t the future?

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        Doesn’t it also depend on how long the mile is?

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      It’s 5280. It’s not hard to remember if you have an IQ above absolute freezing.

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        YSK only three countries on Earth use the Imperial system of measurement, Myanmar, Liberia, and the U.S. The hostility is not needed.

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          It’s very easy if you remember that are 3 feet in a yard, 22 yards in a chain, 10 chains in a furlong, and 8 furlongs on in a mile!

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                Both, nautical mile and metre are derived from earth’s dimensions: One nautical mile is an arc second minute at the equator, i.e. its circumference is 360·60 NM = 21,600 NM. One metre originally was 1/40,000,000 of the circumference through the poles (or 1/10,000,000 of the distance from a pole to the equator).

                Edit: Forgot three zeros in the definition of a metre.

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        What’s absolute freezing? Did you mash up absolute zero, as in zero degrees Kelvin, with freezing, as in zero degrees Celsius?