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- From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
- Subject: Re: Addr: SPACWE FOOD
- Message-ID: <Bxo7vM.1K6@zoo.toronto.edu>
- Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 20:06:57 GMT
- References: <Bxo3r3.9I.1@cs.cmu.edu>
- Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
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- In article <Bxo3r3.9I.1@cs.cmu.edu> KEVIN@VM.CC.FAMU.EDU ("Kevin R. Cain") writes:
- >>The standard Shuttle menu supplies each crew member with three
- >>balanced meals, providing 2,800 kilocalories each day...
- >
- >WOW! No wonder they say that the shuttle glides like a brick. At 2,800
- >kilocalories a day per I'm not suprised! :-)
- >
- >As the saying goes, what's a order of magnitude among friends.
-
- 2800 kcal/day is correct. The unit of food energy content, often sloppily
- called a "calorie", is in fact a kilocalorie by the normal scientific
- definition of "calorie".
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