• Zwuzelmaus@feddit.org
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    1 day ago

    People cannot visualize an area of 1500 km²

    That’s where hectares are useful and a sensible, well known metric.

    • mhague@lemmy.world
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      1 day ago

      How do you guys reach a point where you’re arguing for less effective science communication? They’re summing up values as universally recognized objects. Wow! That sounds like the perfect way to communicate with people.

      It’s such a no brainer. The “anything but metric” meme turned people into dorks.

    • da_cow (she/her)@feddit.org
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      1 day ago

      Only downside is, that most people usually dont know how mich a hectare is. It usually only gets used in the context of farming (at least I havent heard it outside that context)

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        5 hours ago

        that’s an acre.
        how much land one is able to plow with 1 donkey (or horse, forget which. probably the horse as a donkey can be stubborn from what I hear)

        • da_cow (she/her)@feddit.org
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          3 hours ago

          The only thing you have to remember is, that 4 acres are one hectare.

          If I remember acre comes from how much land one can now using a scythe in the morning (in German acre is “Morge” which is almost the same as the German word for morning which is “Morgen”)