Do you not understand that i ' m not comparing trump to obama ? I ' m comparing your attitude to those conservatives that cried when Obama won . They just blamed the other party instead of evaluating why their candidate lost . BTW Bernie sanders would have beat trump , he was a far better candidate and wasn ' t sold out like Hillary is . So yeah you ' re wrong about her being the most qualified candidate <| sep |> thats nice work . loved it from my heart . <| sep |> Asmodeus is my copilot . What sort of occult stuff do you study and why are you interested in that niche ? <| sep |> They do exist , but when it comes to what gets used in practice , it ' s just a matter of convenience and tradition . Sometimes this differs from field to field . Astronomers in particular are notorious for using slightly wacky units , such as using the cgs system that prefers centimetres and grams over metres and kilograms . I ' m going to continue to talk from an astronomy perspective , because that ' s where these large units are most relevant . In astronomy , we either use scientific notation i . e . 1011 cm , or we use different units that are more intuitive . For example the distance from the Earth to the Sun is about 150 Gigametres , and Venus is 110 Gigametres from the Sun . But what we do in practice is we define one astronomical unit or AU as about 150 Gigametres , and just say the Earth is 1 AU from the Sun , and Venus is 0 . 7 AU away , which is much easier to visualize . Similarly , we use solar masses i . e . the mass of the Sun and solar radii to measure the size of stars , or earth masses to measure the masses of planets . We can convert things into grams etc to do the actual math , but it ' s handy to have these big convenient units to get an intuitive mental picture of what ' s going on . Basically , if I say a star has a mass of 1032 kg , that probably doesn ' t mean anything to you . But if I say it has 100 solar masses , then that ' s something you can sort of visualise .