How come people say 5,000 km and not 5 Mm?
why not just say millions of meters or Mega meters?

  • Jojo@lemm.ee
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    4 months ago

    I’ve seen megameters used in the context of astronomical distances, but not terrestrial ones. I think terrestrially, the familiarity of kilometers helps with a sense of scale.