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To: CatOwner
I posted that while the other one was being posted so I did not see that correction.

However, it is appropriate to talk in terms of megatons, not thousands of kilitons.

If you win the 10 million dollar lotttery, are you going to scream "I won ten thousand thousand dollars!"

I didn't think so.

5 posted on 10/27/2001 2:34:27 PM PDT by 1000Mhz
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To: 1000Mhz
A megaire.
7 posted on 10/27/2001 2:36:21 PM PDT by onedoug
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To: 1000Mhz
Yeah, except most people in this country can't relate a kiloton to a megaton. Most are too deficient in mathematics to understand kilo- and mega- anything. Having all of the pictures specified as kilotons does make it easier to understand the relative amounts. I say we start with 1 megaton bombs and go from there! ;)
10 posted on 10/27/2001 2:40:02 PM PDT by CatOwner
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To: 1000Mhz
...or 1Ghz?
11 posted on 10/27/2001 2:40:05 PM PDT by onedoug
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To: 1000Mhz
Given your screenname, you gotta be kidding.
18 posted on 10/27/2001 2:47:43 PM PDT by Economist_MA
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To: 1000Mhz
You know what a millihelen is, don't you?

The amount of beauty sufficient to launch one ship.

23 posted on 10/27/2001 2:56:21 PM PDT by Arthur McGowan
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To: 1000Mhz
However, it is appropriate to talk in terms of megatons, not thousands of kilitons.

Ummm.. May I be the first to tell you that your nick is not in order, Gigahertz? Straighten out, man ;).

28 posted on 10/27/2001 3:13:06 PM PDT by Cachelot
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