299,792,458: The Number That Connects Pyramids to Light Speed

4 pointsposted 17 days ago
by bridgerb

5 Comments

bridgerb

17 days ago

This is my new favorite "fun fact"

theGeatZhopa

17 days ago

Actually there are two more for me. One that the longitude is a fraction of speed of light and the other is that the distance from North Pole to equator is 10k

Both new things two me. But, neither way, I think it's constricted.

beardyw

17 days ago

> distance from North Pole to equator is 10k

10,000k - that's how it was originally formulated.

theGeatZhopa

17 days ago

Oh. I guess that was taught on the day I chose to eat Ice cream instead of chewing on exercises. Thy. I have a read up this history

beardyw

17 days ago

I only knew from doing a 3d globe projection. Back then I was eating ice cream too.