Sorry to nerd out, but this reminds me of a senior grad student when I was a first year physics grad student. He was talking about the "order of magnitude" class that some professor was able to set up as a fun class for fulfilling his teaching requirements. It involved calculating or estimating order of magnitude values and putting them in units of something you can relate to (e.g. distance in terms of football fields, or your height, energy in an hour of air conditioning, etc.). In the spirit of this class, this guy used his dick for length and then came up with some other size unit to convert to for homework he had to hand in. The diameter of the Milky Way galaxy is 5 * 10^19 of this guy's "dick units", apparently.

[–] Schnitzel_bub@lemmy.ml 7 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

this also makes sense anthropologically, since humans seem to have a built in social instinct to compare penis sizes. so if you run out of peer penises, or it is deemed socially unacceptable, one can transfer the instinct into measuring everything else compared to one's penis.

if this would be a social norm, the standard unit approximation would probably keep increasing incrementally over the years, for social reasons.

"that door is 6 dicks wide"

"I only measured 5,2 dicks wide"

"..."

The speed with which one dick unit would increase per year on average will be called SUE or small unit energy.

[–] starman2112@sh.itjust.works 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Uhh what kind of door is only a foot and a half wide lmao

[–] Wage_slave@lemmy.ml 3 points 11 months ago

It was the door to a barbie dream house, and no I don't have pics, it's embarrassing enough already.