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Shrinking kilogram bewilders physicists
Associated Press
| Sep. 12, 2007
| JAMEY KEATEN
Posted on 09/12/2007 2:47:48 PM PDT by decimon
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I was going to go for iridium siding but now I don't know.
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posted on
09/12/2007 2:47:50 PM PDT
by
decimon
To: decimon
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posted on
09/12/2007 2:49:02 PM PDT
by
RightWhale
(Stop Change while it is perfect.)
To: decimon
Would it be too far fetched to say this demonstrates entropy?
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posted on
09/12/2007 2:49:40 PM PDT
by
Recovering_Democrat
((I am SO glad to no longer be associated with the party of Dependence on Government!))
To: decimon
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posted on
09/12/2007 2:49:50 PM PDT
by
mnehring
(What does the Ron Paul Rorschach test say about you?)
To: decimon
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posted on
09/12/2007 2:49:51 PM PDT
by
nuconvert
("Terrorism is not the enemy. It is a means to the ends of militant Islamism." MZJ)
To: dighton; martin_fierro; jdm; cyborg; Tijeras_Slim
Doesn’t everybody’s Gram get smaller as she ages? It’s usually osteoporosis.
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posted on
09/12/2007 2:50:16 PM PDT
by
Petronski
(Cleveland Indians: Pennant -11)
To: decimon
50 micrograms is roughly equivalent to the weight of a fingerprint. You don't suppose that's the answer right there, do you?
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posted on
09/12/2007 2:50:57 PM PDT
by
Oberon
(What does it take to make government shrink?)
To: decimon
Next time don’t allow trace amounts of tofu in your metal castings!
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posted on
09/12/2007 2:51:09 PM PDT
by
ikka
To: Recovering_Democrat
Would it be too far fetched to say this demonstrates entropy?
That was my first thought.
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posted on
09/12/2007 2:51:26 PM PDT
by
JamesP81
To: decimon
That’s 0.005%. Give me a break. Pierre miscalibrated the scale when he was measuring it.
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posted on
09/12/2007 2:51:57 PM PDT
by
stm
(Fred Thompson in 08!)
To: decimon
Since global warming is doing a "Titanic", this would give the libs a whole new scare:
Global Shrinking.
Are you sure you're not getting small?
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posted on
09/12/2007 2:53:23 PM PDT
by
capt. norm
(Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for.)
To: decimon
I thought my last bottle for french wine looked a little short. This explains it.
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posted on
09/12/2007 2:53:44 PM PDT
by
UglyinLA
To: decimon
The last guy who used it dropped it and nicked off a corner?
To: decimon
The copies have probably oxidized a bit and gained weight—sort of like I have.
To: RightWhale
Like the definition of 6 inches?
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posted on
09/12/2007 2:55:15 PM PDT
by
SmithL
(I don't do Barf Alerts, you're old enough to read and decide for yourself)
To: decimon
The NIST was working on a replacement for the Kilo-gram a few years back involving magnetic energy force. I guess they’re still working on it..........
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posted on
09/12/2007 2:56:01 PM PDT
by
Red Badger
(ALL that CARBON in ALL that oil & coal was once in the atmospere. We're just putting it back!)
To: Logophile
“We could obviously use a better definition,” Davis said.
I thought you might appreciate this thread : )
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posted on
09/12/2007 2:56:34 PM PDT
by
LeGrande
(Muslims, Jews and Christians all believe in the same God of Abraham.)
To: decimon
Sometimes there’s a silver lining to the cloud. A similar weight discrepancy led a researcher to hypothesize that carbon might have a different configuration in nature than Diamonds, C-6, C14, and others, so he generated C-60 and C-72 to account for the weight discrepancy and we now have buckyballs. There could be something here worth researching.
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posted on
09/12/2007 2:56:39 PM PDT
by
Kevmo
(We should withdraw from Iraq — via Tehran. And Duncan Hunter is just the man to get that job done.)
To: Recovering_Democrat
Local gravity may have changed slightly..............
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posted on
09/12/2007 2:57:19 PM PDT
by
Red Badger
(ALL that CARBON in ALL that oil & coal was once in the atmospere. We're just putting it back!)
To: decimon
Global Shrinking! Bush’s fault!
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posted on
09/12/2007 2:57:45 PM PDT
by
PhatHead
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