At the edge of the solar system, Voyager 1 is reporting a sharp increase in cosmic rays that could herald the spacecraft’s long-awaited entry into interstellar space.
Two weeks ago NASA ran an article suggesting that the Voyager 1 spacecraft may be the first human-made object to enter interstellar space, this 4 minute video is a follow-up to that article.
Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech
You’d think that scientists would learn how to pronounce kilometers properly.
There’s a rule for that.
Metric MEASUREMENTS, have the accent on the first syllable:
DEC-i-me-ter
MILL-i-me-ter
CENT-i-me-ter
MILL-i-li-ter
KIL-o-grams
MILL-i-gram
KIL-o-me-ter
etc.
Measuring DEVICES have the accent on the second syllable:
ther-MOM-e-ter
tach-OM-e-ter
bar-OM-i-ter
speed-OM-i-ter
ped-OM-i-ter
o-DOM-e-ter
So, the way the narrator pronounces it – kil-OM-e-ter, would mean a device that measures, not a distance.
I know, I’m a little OCD when it comes to that. 🙂