I’m guessing this was long before bananas were invented. Those are perfect.
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Garage sale. Or help a young person out who jist bought a house get started with a bunch of pliers (but never the right one).
What about quarter inches?
Fine, metric feet it is!
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Is it weird that I kind on like it? The best part is, I’m finally 6 feet* tall!
*metric feet
I’m holding out for a metric day = 100 kiloseconds.
Not counting leap seconds of course.
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Took me a full ten seconds to realize what was going on with that clock.
You mean 0.01ks
That clock is a bit strange.
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The AttoParsec is clearly the most appropriate unit for objects of this general scale.
The BeardSecond is useful on very small scales.
And all this time I thought it was furlongs/fortnight, Dang!
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That’s the UOM that my engineering professor inserted whenever a student forgot to label their results.
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Well…Furlongs/Fortnight is a measurement of velocity…I think we’re just dealing with distance here…microfurlongs would be workable though. 8^)
You’re all assuming some fixed concept of space-time at non-relativistic speeds. Start figuring in gravitational waves, quantum flux, etc., and measurements become meaningless. Except to my wife. Then things must be centered on a wall, or in a visual open space.
Excellent idea, and bright solution, thanks for sharing!
This goes straight-away in my to do list.
There’s a good YouTube video from NYCNC about using images to help design on F360. Just search ‘how to create a CAD model from a photo in fusion 360’. I tried including link but new member restrictions and all that.
Loving the metric v imperial chaos 
I worked at an aerospace company that converted to metric in the 70’s but kept all of the imperial jigs, tooling, drawing etc. Took a long time to get used to it all (some obscure metric measurements and tooling used) and not long at all to forget about it.
My job now involves a metric based system working on imperial infrastructure. I can’t escape the madness!
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I like it!
Okay, I have to figure out a way to try this now. Very cool idea.