stackyFACTSImagine guarding a lump of metal with your life just so the world knows how much a sack of potatoes weighs.
Imagine guarding a lump of metal with your life just so the world knows how much a sack of potatoes weighs. Until recently, the definition of a kilogram was literally a piece of platinum locked in a French vault. If someone sneezed on it, the global measurement system would be thrown into chaos. Thankfully, experts finally got paranoid enough to redefine it using universal constants instead of an artifact that occasionally gathered dust.
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