On April 20, Sridhar the POWERful wrote:
> > It does so! Just the basic unit of nature they picked was not a real
> > basic unit - it was the earth! The meter was something like 1/10,000,000
> > the Earth's curumfrence going thru Paris and the North and South poles.
> > The Kilogram's (derived from the meter ) volume was filled with water
> > and thus you got a unit weight.
>
> <PEDANTIC>
> Ahem. Kilograms don't measure weight. Newtons measure weight.
> </PEDANTIC>
Oh MAN. We could shove charcoal briquets up his butt and make
diamonds. ;)
-Dave
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Dave McGuire "Mmmm. Big."
St. Petersburg, FL -Den
Received on Sat Apr 20 2002 - 17:30:04 BST