--- Boatman on the River of Suck <vance_at_ikickass.org> wrote:
> On Wed, 12 Dec 2001, Eric J. Korpela wrote:
>
> > > 12 inches for a thousandth of a second sounds a little off...though
> > > I'm too lazy to do the math...
> >
> > Right. The speed of light is 30 cm/ns.
>
> Or 1.79 X 10^12 furlongs per fortnight. 8-)
I think I first heard that phrased as "~2 micro-furlongs per micro-
fortnight..."
-ethan
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Received on Wed Dec 12 2001 - 22:56:03 GMT