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March 11th 08, 08:42 AM
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Air Borne Laser is Almost Operational
"Square Wheels" wrote in message news:yuhBj.68009$w94.42702@pd7urf2no... "...each the size of "a Mini Cooper automobile," and now are ready..." Is that the original Mini Cooper S, which was a mini car, or the laughingly named BMW Mini Cooper, which is the size of a small house? 
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March 14th 08, 09:59 AM
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"Neil Hoskins" wrote in
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"Square Wheels" wrote in message news:yuhBj.68009$w94.42702@pd7urf2no... "...each the size of "a Mini Cooper automobile," and now are ready..." Is that the original Mini Cooper S, which was a mini car, or the laughingly named BMW Mini Cooper, which is the size of a small house? I long for a simpler day when everything could be compared to a football field or a VW Bug...
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#3
March 14th 08, 10:01 AM
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Bob Harrington wrote:
"Neil Hoskins" wrote in news
"Square Wheels" wrote in message news:yuhBj.68009$w94.42702@pd7urf2no... "...each the size of "a Mini Cooper automobile," and now are ready..." Is that the original Mini Cooper S, which was a mini car, or the laughingly named BMW Mini Cooper, which is the size of a small house? I long for a simpler day when everything could be compared to a football field or a VW Bug... Hey, it's still the same football field, only now it's metric. -- Cheers Dave Kearton
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#4
March 14th 08, 11:56 AM
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"Dave Kearton" wrote in message
.. . Bob Harrington wrote: "Neil Hoskins" wrote in news
"Square Wheels" wrote in message news:yuhBj.68009$w94.42702@pd7urf2no... "...each the size of "a Mini Cooper automobile," and now are ready..." Is that the original Mini Cooper S, which was a mini car, or the laughingly named BMW Mini Cooper, which is the size of a small house? I long for a simpler day when everything could be compared to a football field or a VW Bug... Hey, it's still the same football field, only now it's metric. Not in North America. NFL fields are still 100 yards from goal line to goal line, and 53.33 yards from side line to side line (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/America..._and_players); CFL fields, 110 and 65 yards (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...all_field.png). -- Andrew Chaplin SIT MIHI GLADIUS SICUT SANCTO MARTINO (If you're going to e-mail me, you'll have to get "yourfinger." out.)
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#5
March 14th 08, 09:06 PM
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Andrew Chaplin wrote:
"Dave Kearton" wrote in message Hey, it's still the same football field, only now it's metric. Not in North America. NFL fields are still 100 yards from goal line to goal line, and 53.33 yards from side line to side line (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/America..._and_players); CFL fields, 110 and 65 yards (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...all_field.png). -- Andrew Chaplin heavy sigh I know, it was only wishful thinking.... Went to the hardware store last weekend, needing a handful of bolts - at least 65mm long before the thread starts. The only brand they had were 'Zenith' and they were in inches. I suspected that 2 3/4" would do the trick, head scratching didn't help and had to find a steel ruler to confirm it. I realised the US would probably never fully accept metrification when I saw Spock on Star Trek refer to a new M-class planet they were orbiting - reading out it's mass in "metric tons...." -- Cheers Dave Kearton
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#6
March 17th 08, 11:35 AM
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"Bob Harrington" wrote in message ... I long for a simpler day when everything could be compared to a football field or a VW Bug... Ah yes. Or if you work in microelectronics, you can forget about thou, mil, microns, or nanometers, because as far as the popular press is concerned, everything is measured in units of 'the thickness of a human hair'.
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#7
March 17th 08, 12:04 PM
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Neil Hoskins wrote:
"Bob Harrington" wrote in message ... I long for a simpler day when everything could be compared to a football field or a VW Bug... Ah yes. Or if you work in microelectronics, you can forget about thou, mil, microns, or nanometers, because as far as the popular press is concerned, everything is measured in units of 'the thickness of a human hair'. Or the engineering adaptation of the hair measurement, the 'BCH'. -- Cheers Dave Kearton
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#8
March 17th 08, 11:43 PM
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On Mon, 17 Mar 2008 22:34:28 +1030, Dave Kearton wrote:
Neil Hoskins wrote: "Bob Harrington" wrote in message ... I long for a simpler day when everything could be compared to a football field or a VW Bug... Ah yes. Or if you work in microelectronics, you can forget about thou, mil, microns, or nanometers, because as far as the popular press is concerned, everything is measured in units of 'the thickness of a human hair'. Or the engineering adaptation of the hair measurement, the 'BCH'. No that's RCH (or Royal)
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#9
March 17th 08, 02:22 PM
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Air Borne Laser is Almost Operational
On Mon, 17 Mar 2008 11:35:48 +0000, Neil Hoskins wrote:
"Bob Harrington" wrote in message ... I long for a simpler day when everything could be compared to a football field or a VW Bug... Ah yes. Or if you work in microelectronics, you can forget about thou, mil, microns, or nanometers, because as far as the popular press is concerned, everything is measured in units of 'the thickness of a human hair'. "I think my hair is thinning....." "Well, who wants fat hair?" -- Spike Jones routine
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#10
March 18th 08, 12:38 PM
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"Bob Harrington" wrote in message ... I long for a simpler day when everything could be compared to a football field or a VW Bug... You'll be delighted to hear, I'm sure, that as the first commercial A380 heads for Heathrow, the BBC man has just announced that its wingspan is "very nearly the length of a football pitch".
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