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[โ€“] synapse1278@lemmy.world 17 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Sadly, incorrect:

Since 2019 the metre has been defined as the length of the path travelled by light in vacuum during a time interval of 1/299792458 of a second

Metre - Wikipedia

[โ€“] FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today 0 points 7 months ago

That seems completely infeasible, how am I supposed to reach a proper haberdashery in the depths of deep space? Nobody has time for that nonsense.