Weighty article

[RSTC]

http://www.wired.com/magazine/2011/09/ff_kilogram/all/1

Interesting story

[Goober]

Fell asleep at my desk after the first 6 or 7 paragraphs...

[aramis]

I read a little more than Goober and decided that 1/110.2 th of a fifty pounder is precise enough for me!

[RSTC]

Sorry goober I'm a bit of a geek for this sort of thing, but I hope you got a good 8 hours and are feeling refreshed today!

It reminds me of a story that was doing the rounds in college of a guy, who in a practical workshop class upon finding his pipework or whatever slightly too long, proclaimed that he'll just need shave a <<lady>> hair off. His lecturer was aghast and chastised him, not for using such coarse language, but on using such an inaccurate measuring method in his class. So he did his final year thesis on what are the parameters of the width of <<lady>> hairs.

Given that I have heard the story a couple of times, the workshop and material changed on each occasion and an exhaustive search for a copy of the thesis has proved fruitless - I'm surmising that it may have been an urban legend.

[Goober]

RSTC....would that be a Gee Hair unit of measurement by anychance? or the more coarser C word?

[RSTC]

I'm dropping a C-bomb