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[-] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 21 points 1 day ago

I thought the joke was calling the person a dumbass because the speed of light is a constant and therefore having it be 1 makes a lot of sense when looked at from a universal scale. The only reason a meter isn't a clean division of the speed of light is because we defined the meter before we decided to make it a division of c.

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