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xkcd #3289: Highway Signs

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Highway engineers like Planck units because, like the speed of light, the energy capacity of a typical car's gas tank is 1.

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[–] Areexor@feddit.org 6 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Love the new speed limit, especially if the tolerances of +/- 3 stay the same.

[–] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 days ago

But negative speeds are dangerous!