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To: Lazamataz

Define a meter.


33 posted on 08/20/2009 9:00:35 AM PDT by CodeToad (If it weren't for physics and law enforcement I'd be unstoppable!)
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To: CodeToad
A second is the amount of time it takes light to travel 299,792,458 meters in a vacuum, and a meter is the distance it takes light to travel in a vacuum for one 299,792,458th of a second.

I mean, it's all very plain and easy to understand, for goodness sake!

37 posted on 08/20/2009 9:06:58 AM PDT by Lazamataz ("If they taxed condoms and toilet paper, they'd have us coming and going." - Lazamataz, 2002)
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To: CodeToad

Of course, we do need to define 299,792,458.


38 posted on 08/20/2009 9:07:31 AM PDT by Lazamataz ("If they taxed condoms and toilet paper, they'd have us coming and going." - Lazamataz, 2002)
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To: CodeToad; Lazamataz
"Define a meter."

Isn't that when you first approach a woman?

40 posted on 08/20/2009 9:12:02 AM PDT by BlueLancer (I'm getting a fine tootsy-frootsying right here...)
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To: CodeToad

If I recall correctly, the original definition of the meter was to be the surface distance between the north pole and the equator divided by 10,000,000.


57 posted on 08/20/2009 8:00:59 PM PDT by AFPhys ((.Praying for President Bush, our troops, their families, and all my American neighbors..))
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