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== [[Literature]] ==
* On ''[[Gor]]'', distances are measured in "passangs", which are 7/10ths of a mile.
* [[Edgar Rice Burroughs]]' ''[[Barsoom]]'' stories. According to [[The Other Wiki]] [
** 1 sofad = 11.68 inches
** 1 ad = 9.75 feet
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== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* ''[[
* In ''[[Star Trek (Franchise)|Star Trek]]'', a "kellicam" is a unit of length used by Klingons which is similar in magnitude to a kilometre.
** Bajoran units of measurement include hecapate, kellipate, kerripate, linnipate, tessijen and tessipate.
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** ''[[Star Trek (Franchise)|Star Trek]]'' has also had the forethought to come up with units for things that present-day science is physically incapable of measuring. "Cochranes" is apparently the metric unit for subspace flux (named for Zefram Cochrane, obviously).
* In ''[[Red Dwarf (TV)|Red Dwarf]]'', distances are measured in "gigooks", though how far this is is never indicated.
* The Daleks of ''[[
** Which, when we actually hear them using it, turns out to be exactly equal to one second.
* ''[[James Mays Man Lab (TV)|James Mays Man Lab]]'' parodied the BBC's tendencies for using objects to express units of measure (see the [[Real Life]] section), at one point measuring the ascent of two weather balloons in "Mount Everests" and "[[Oz and James|Oz Clarkes]]".
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* The explosive power of very large explosions is measured in [[Hiroshima As a Unit of Measure|Hiroshimas]], or occasionally in multiples of the sum total of all explosives used during [[World War Two]].
* Television meteorologists will give sizes of hail in much the same way, generally using sports equipment, usually ranging from golf ball-sized to softball-sized hail. One anecdotal case from the Ozarks had a person calling in about "cellphone sized hail" that had newscaster trying to guess whether they were thinking tiny flip-phones or huge Blackberries.
* The [
* Energy (or work, since it has the same SI dimensions) can be measured in Burning Libraries of Congress.
* The stone-furlong-fortnight system (on the analogy of centimeter-gram-second and foot-pound-second) is an in-joke of science fiction fandom. If you are going to cling to "traditional" units, why not go ALL the way?
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== [[Web Comics]] ==
* ''[[Order of the Stick (Webcomic)|Order of the Stick]]'' [http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0489.html introduced] measurement of villainy in kilonazi. Presumably 1 Nz equals the output of an average (from [[The Fundamentalist|"rabid"]] to [[Signed Up for The Dental|"nodding freeloader"]]) member of National Socialistic party. The estimated evildoing level for a hypothetical offspring of [[
* Grace in ''[[El Goonish Shive (Webcomic)|El Goonish Shive]]'' [http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2011-02-11 measured] sadness in Seymours -- using the "Jurassic Bark" episode of ''[[Futurama (Animation)|Futurama]]'' as a baseline.
* ''[[Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal]]'' does this sometimes, including using "kiloweiners" at at least one point to measure shame/embarrasment.
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