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- From: weemba@sagi.wistar.upenn.edu (Matthew P Wiener)
- Newsgroups: sci.math,sci.physics
- Subject: Re: "The Universe of MOTION" (crackpot index)
- Message-ID: <93388@netnews.upenn.edu>
- Date: 16 Oct 92 13:59:13 GMT
- Article-I.D.: netnews.93388
- References: <1bkpg2INNmt1@smaug.West.Sun.COM>
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- Reply-To: weemba@sagi.wistar.upenn.edu (Matthew P Wiener)
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- In-reply-to: Richard.Mathews@West.Sun.COM (Richard M. Mathews)
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- In article <1bkpg2INNmt1@smaug.West.Sun.COM>, Richard.Mathews@West (Richard M. Mathews) writes:
- >15.0000 Matthew P Wiener
-
- 15.0000? An INTEGER to four SIGNIFICANT figures!?! I propose, to
- PROPERLY calibrate all FUTURE crackpot indices, that WEEMBA be the
- USENET equivalent of CARBON-12. Just as ONE atomic mass unit (amu)
- is *exactly* 1/12 the mass of a CARBON-12 nucleus at STP, so TOO is
- ONE usenet crackpot unit (ucu) *exactly* 1/15 the crackpottery of a
- WEEMBA-15 posting at STP.
- --
- -Matthew P Wiener (weemba@sagi.wistar.upenn.edu) If Apple owned
- NBC, they would sue Nike for comedy-interface copyright violation.
-