'Hella Big': Soon To Be A Scientific Measurement?
Unless you grew up in the church in the Bay Area when you were a kid and couldn’t say “hell.” Then, of course, you would say “hecka.”
“Planet Ohsnap is 150 heckameters away.” Boom, sold.
That headline is misleading, unfortunately. What’s going on is a UC Davis physics major has started a petition to make “hella” the prefix denoting 10^27 in units of measurement, but by “petition” I mean “Facebook fan page,” which is the exact opposite of a petition, really. (Nik gets credit for pointing me to this BoingBoing post on the petition.) But I’m all for it, and would sign if I could sign something real.
I would like to point to my first post on Tumblr from three years ago—a conversation with Ernie, even—which addressed this.
Source: ernie
