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Gentlemen! Do not spoil such wonderful thread with pointless flamewar, please.
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You do realize you're in The Lounge? Dukes Up! We'll never get past ten pages otherwise.
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So nobody 'owns' it, it is a property of our planet.
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Except that they got it wrong.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_metre
So they went to multiple archival platinum rulers. Then a single International Standard bar with ruled lines instead of measuring end-to-end. Still not good enough:
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The metre is the length equal to 1 650 763.73 wavelengths in vacuum of the radiation corresponding to the transition between the levels 2p10 and 5d5 of the krypton 86 atom.
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So much more humane than the length of your stride, am I right? The strength of the metric system is it encompasses measures like the Coulomb that were
macht nichts in Greek and Roman times.
How did that ten hour day work out?