Wikipedia often gets a bad rap (sometimes deservedly, other times less deservedly so), so I thought that I might highlight the following article:
It is an interesting tabulation of various scientific predictions of future events.
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We’re gonna need a big bowl of popcorn … 
Very interesting.
And another excuse for my growing procrastination problem.
Good read. And I learned that a buffoff is equal to one micron (one millionth of a meter) of movement per year. “That’s about the speed at which fingernails grow!”
Somehow back in the olden days when I was studying abroad, I mistakenly got the impression that the term was something London gals said loudly in order to get rid of pesky American men trying to chat them up. Now I know that I was shy and moving too slowly. Wish I’d known that back then.
I was really confused by this, until I realised you were talking about Bubnoff units.
Also, fingernails on average grow at about 0.1mm/day – or 36,500 B. Toenails apparently grow at about half that rate.
And here I thought “buzz off” was a trans-Atlantic expression. Was the Cockney accent confusing you perchance? 
(Unless it was the more pointed “bugger off”, which I hear is more Anglo-Commonwealth than trans-Atlantic.)
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