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  1. Newsgroups: alt.callahans
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!spool.mu.edu!darwin.sura.net!nntp.msstate.edu!whale.st.usm.edu!jmpierce
  3. From: jmpierce@whale.st.usm.edu (Jimmy Malcolm Pierce)
  4. Subject: Re: Newbies on the March
  5. Message-ID: <1992Dec22.050920.11807@ra.msstate.edu>
  6. Sender: news@ra.msstate.edu
  7. Nntp-Posting-Host: whale.st.usm.edu
  8. Organization: University of Southern Mississippi
  9. References: <1h51lcINNpf1@newsman.csu.murdoch.edu.au> <1992Dec21.090447.8483@ucc.su.OZ.AU>
  10. Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 05:09:20 GMT
  11. Lines: 15
  12.  
  13. (DM) writes:
  14. >"One of the worst offenders for units, though, is astronomy. Through
  15. >sheer bloody-mindedness and inertia, I am forced to have to cope with
  16. >anachronisms like Angstroms (where the SI nanometre is a perfectly
  17. >sensible substitute) and to measure the size of astronomical objects
  18. >in centimetres!"
  19. >
  20. >- Danger Mouse.
  21.  
  22.     "Because we still use Angstroms in the US... " DJ... :-)
  23.  
  24. -- 
  25.          Jim Pierce Bach. of Sci. in Applied Computer Science USM 
  26.              jmpierce@whale.st.usm.edu  Disclaimer: Standard.
  27.                    Video. Cher: Love and Understanding.
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