All be! Now there's one I didn't know.
RonS
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> From: owner-olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:owner-olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of John A. Lind
> Sent: Friday, March 03, 2000 2:45 PM
> To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [OM] OT, Metric stuff
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>
> At 22:56 3/3/00 , George Sears pondered:
> >For the Genius Chaps, Speed of light was 186,000 miles per
> second. Whats it
> >changing to now?
> approx. 299,792,458.012 meters per second (in vacuo)
> [1988 Astronomical Almanac; Handbook of Mathematical Functions, AMS 55]
>
> >And last but not least... The whole nine yards!
> The etymology for this phrase is from W.W.II fighter aircraft .50 caliber
> machine gun belts which were 27 feet long. When a pilot used the
> term "the
> whole nine yards" it referred to having used his entire load of
> ammunition.
>
> -- John
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