Gigametre

The gigametre (official spelling used by the International Bureau of Weights and Measures;SI symbol: Gm) or gigameter (American spelling) is a unit of length in the metric system, equal to one billion metres, the SI base unit of length, hence to 1,000,000 km or approximately 621,370 miles.

Gigametres (from the Greek words gigas = giant and metro = count/measure) are rarely seen in practical use. They are too big for any terrestrial lengths, and gigametre distances in astronomy (e.g. a planet's distance from its star) are usually given in astronomical units (AU) or in (millions of) kilometres.

See also

Ghostbusters II

Ghostbusters II is a 1989 American supernatural horror comedy film, produced and directed by Ivan Reitman. It is the sequel to the 1984 film Ghostbusters, and follows the further adventures of the four parapsychologists and their organization which combats paranormal activities. Despite mixed reviews, the film was a box office success grossed $215 million worldwide, becoming the eighth-highest-grossing film of 1989.

Plot

Five years after saving New York City from the demi-god Gozer, the Ghostbusters—Egon Spengler, Ray Stantz, Peter Venkman, and Winston Zeddemore—have gone their separate ways after having been sued by the city for property damage and barred from investigating the supernatural, forcing them out of business. Ray owns an occult bookstore and works as an unpopular children's entertainer with Winston, Egon works in a laboratory on the Columbia University campus, conducting experiments into human emotion, and Peter hosts a pseudo-psychic television show. Peter's former girlfriend Dana Barrett has had a son, Oscar, with a violinist that she married then divorced when he received an offer to join the London Symphony Orchestra. In order to take care of her baby, Dana quit performing and now works as a restorer at the fictional Manhattan Museum of Art, working to prepare a malevolent-looking portrait of a legendary sixteenth-century tyrant named Vigo the Carpathian of Moldavia for an upcoming exhibition.