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- From: bhoughto@sedona.intel.com (Blair P. Houghton)
- Subject: Re: Parsecs?
- Message-ID: <1992Aug14.051155.29247@ichips.intel.com>
- Sender: news@ichips.intel.com (News Account)
- Organization: Intel Corp., Chandler, Arizona
- References: <1992Aug11.211445.6928@csi.on.ca> <MT87692.92Aug13163609@sotka.cs.tut.fi> <1992Aug13.185735.5040@news.uit.no>
- Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 05:11:55 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug13.185735.5040@news.uit.no> alvin@stud.cs.uit.no (Alvin Brattli) writes:
- >This reminds me of a definition I found in _Physics Handbook_ by
- >C. Nordling and J. Oesterman:
- >
- >"1 light-year = 9.46055e15 m. A corresponding unit, 1 beard-second = 1e-8 m,
- > has been suggested for microscopic distances. One beard-second is the
- > distance which a standard beard in a standard face grows in one second."
-
- One blairsbeardsec, being the distance at which my beard
- subtends one second of arc (on average; well, according to
- a small sampling; okay, a sampling of one; I'm not going to
- pull ALL my whiskers just to satisfy NIST and the IAU :-{/}),
- 7420 meters (36.9 furlongs), which, coincidentally, is just
- (36^3)/2pi (the sample was exactly 3.6cm long :-{)}).
-
- My moustache, since it is multiplied by a uniform munching
- factor, does not give very consistent results...
-
- --Blair
- "Finally found my Feynman in the
- last moving-box I looked through."
-