Re: Antpower, was Re: The Nanogirl News~

From: Terry W. Colvin (fortean1@mindspring.com)
Date: Tue May 13 2003 - 19:16:43 MDT

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    "Michael M. Butler" wrote:
    >
    > On Tue, 13 May 2003 09:55:15 -0700 (PDT), Adrian Tymes
    > <wingcat@pacbell.net> wrote:
    >
    > > Unless, of course, you just want to define "one
    > > antpower" (which doesn't necessarily exactly
    > > correspond to a particular ant) to be 1/2,000,000
    > > horsepower (which doesn't necessarily exactly
    > > correspond to a particular horse). ^_-
    >
    > Thus taking part in continuing a grand old measurement-coining tradition!

    Newspapers and other media are fond of using less rigorous faux estimates.
    For example, an ice sheet the size of Rhode Island.

    Another group I frequent is Forteana where FUMs (Fortean units of
    measurement) appear from time to time. For example, a phenomenon
    as big as a battleship.

    Terry 

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