Yep, I do use it often, though my problem is I know way too much and I can’t get it all out without overloading the reader with dozens of concepts per chapter. And I’m already writing a mythological story.
You can still build bridges for train tracks.
Do people in Sensland all have common sense?
Yeah, basically. In the past, exact measurements weren’t necessary. A kilometre is defined as ‘1/40,000th of the circumference of the Earth’, except somene screwed up the measurements so the circumference of the earth is between 40,008 km and 40,075 km. Fortunately, now we define stuff by light, so a metre is the distance light can travel in 1/299,792,458th of a second (didn’t look that up, it’s by memory).
Fun fact: the word ‘mile’ comes from Latin, and (funnily enough) actually means a thousand (e.g. millipede = thousand legs, millennium = a thousand years). The original Roman mile is 1481 metres long, described as ‘a thousand double paces’. It was used by the army, since that was the way you measured how far you went. You didn’t need to know if the nearest town is 1.22 or 1.24 kilometres away.
Wow. You can play older games. I play a lot of Thief, and that game’s gorgeous.
