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The Guy Who Invented the Meter Got Killed for It
At 20:02 · chapter starts 18:51
Bert has been laughing about this all morning and can't wait to tell Tom. The inventor of the meter — defined as one millionth of the distance between France and the North Pole — organized a grand unveiling with a gold bar on a velvet table, dramatically revealed it to a room of dignitaries, and said: 'Ladies and gentlemen, this is the meter.' The room had no idea what he was showing them, and his explanation ('it's this distance, trust me, I did the math') convinced no one. [1] — Bert Kreischer "The man who invented the meter — 1 millionth of the distance between Earth and the North Pole — unveiled it on a velvet table to a room ful…" 18:50 Then the French Revolution got him. Bert's central thesis: this is the original cancel culture. The Reign of Terror under Robespierre was arbitrary — you get executed not for crimes but for ideas that unsettle people, the same way someone got canceled in 2020 for having friends over during COVID. Bert finds the parallel genuinely insightful rather than flippant, and Tom largely agrees.
The man credited with creating the metric measurement system was executed during the French Revolution's Reign of Terror for introducing the idea of the meter.
