Spacetacitors and the Chessmaster System of Measurement

Today was a fairly average day. Nothing too exciting happened, my blog made a little money, and everything went as normal. So, I figured I'd take the time to talk about AP Physics J. I'm sure most of you folks are familiar with the metric system of measurement. Meters and grams, with various prefixes. Most of you are also probably familiar with the U.S. Customary system.

As one could expect, the units of measure on Zircon are vastly different from those on Earth. The units used on Zircon, are significantly more effective for measuring various quantities and carrying out advanced space physics calculations.

Most of the units in the Chessmaster system are very similar to U.S. Customary units. For example, the standard unit of length is the megafurlong, which is equal to 201,168,000 meters. The standard unit of time is the fortnight: 1,209,600 seconds. The standard unit of mass is the slinch: 175.1268 kg. That's the basics.

What are the benefits of using this system? Well, there are several. First of all, it is much, much easier to remember. It's significantly simpler to say the speed of light in a vacuum is 1802617.499785 megafurlongs/fortnight than it is to say it is 300000000 m/s. In addition, the units are much, much more applicable to the real world. Zircon has a mass of exactly 7.00*10^21 slinches. Its diameter is 1 megafurlong. That is why we use the Chessmaster system on Zircon. Much more efficient than the metric system, wouldn't you say?

Anyway, today in AP Physics J, Mr. Corone gave a quiz on Spacetacitors. These are very important when dealing with hypercircuits on spaceships, so it was a very important quiz for someone who wants to enter the Zirconian Navy.

Oh yeah, that's me.

Fortunately, I got a perfect score. I also finished in about one-third the allowed time. This was certainly one of my better units in the class; I still find stellar optics quite baffling.

Anyway, so physics is fun, as always.

Lynn is sick. She's got a cold, probably from one of the trillions of strains that you can find in Andromeda. I hope she gets better soon.

That's life on Zircon. How's life on Earth?