BBC News reports: “The Mars Phoenix lander touched down … after a 680-million-km journey”.
I’m amused by “million kilometre” as a unit of measurement. What happened to the gigametre? Why mix french and greek? Perhaps this is actually a clever new idea. We could start measuring hard disk capacity like “350 million kilobytes” to emphasise just how mindbogglngly large they are.
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It’s all part of the BBC’s helpful strategy of taking easily understandable news stories and reporting them in such simple terms that they lose all meaning 🙂