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One can dream. :) Pi relates to diameter; it'd be much nicer if it related to radius directly instead.
Personally, I want to replace the kg in the mks system with a new symbol and name: I want to go back to calling it the "grave" (as it was called at one time in France), having the symbol capital gamma. Then we wouldn't have the annoying fact of a prefixed unit as a basic unit of the system.
Embarrassingly, my first reaction was to think, "how about cgs units? Those don't use kilograms!"
Hehehe. Cgs units... it really amuses me that it seems to be astronomers who like them best.
Of course, if we were really uber-cool, we'd use natural units, but somehow I can't see Kirstie Alley going on TV talking about how she lost 460 million Planck-masses on Jenny.