Posted on 07/11/2005 9:56:56 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
see #20
For those unable or unwilling to understand the International Standards system, the bomb was approximately 6 feet long and 2 feet in diameter. A metric tonne is roughly equivalent to a U.S. ton (2200 pounds vice 2000 pounds).
BTW, the International Standards system is used by most of the rest of the world. You needn't adopt it personally, but having a working knowledge of it does come in handy when dealing with situations outside the United States.
Or those of us in the defense industry, computer industry, engineering ...
I know a caucasian gal who's married to a Nippon...and she jokingly refers to him as "Rice-d***"
Karl Rove leaked the bombs weight!
I am quite capable of converting SAE to metric. Hell, I can even convert Centigrade to Kelvin. Hold several degrees, none of them liberal arts, so I have on occasion been exposed to the 'International Standard' system.
Now, take it as a joke or not. Don't care, Junior.
Remember what the crop of choice is in that region. Rice grows in mud.
In 1978, I was a part of the RED HORSE construction squadron in Osan Korea. We excavated a rice paddy down 27 feet in some places to get to solid ground. Then we filled it up with concrete to make a quick turn facility at the end of the runway.
Sorry. I've come across a strong strain of parochialism on these threads when it comes to the use of the International System. There is evidently some branch of conservatism that believes it is somehow "un-American" to work with the metric system. I'm expecting someone one day to propose scrapping all modern measuring systems because they are "anti-Biblical" and proposing we go back to cubits and talents.
Is that the standard cubit or the temple cubit?
And you'd better use the sanctuary shekel, I don't want to get screwed over when weighing my silver.
}:-)4
OUch! That's going to leave a mark.
Heh... yes, indeed. In the case of this particular bomb, picture half as many bombs in the "stick", but each roughly twice as large. I wonder if the excavated bomb bore any WWII-vintage graffiti. "Suck on THIS, Tojo!" was reportedly a common choice. ;-)
Amelican wolkmaship!
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