Apollo: One gas environment?

"Greg D. Moore (Strider)" wrote in message
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Umm, please tell me this is a joke or something.

Let's see if I get this straight... they're NOT using diesel... and then
getting in trouble for NOT paying taxes on something they aren't using?

They're still using the roads. Fuel taxes pay for roads, supposedly. By
avoiding paying for roads, you're freeloading off the rest of the people.

In article ,
says...
In fact, we all agree on the number of pounds in a kilogram (0.45359237),

In retrospect, I should have picked an example that didn't confuse force
and mass...


but it turns out that the number of grams in a pound is not an exact number.
It would be nice if the 0.45359237 were changed to a number whose reciprocal
was also a terminating decimal.

So 1/3 isn't an exact number?
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Kevin Willoughby lid

Imagine that, a FROG ON-OFF switch, hardly the work
for test pilots. -- Mike Collins

In article , Mary Shafer
wrote:

Oliver Smoot was a student in 1958, when his fraternity pledge class
measured the Harvard Bridge (364.4 smoots, plus an ear) and marked it.
The markings are renewed biennially.

One smoot is 5' 7", in case you wonder.

Or 5.51515343 x 10^-17 Parsecs
http://www.google.com/search?q=1+smoot+in+parsecs

--
David M. Palmer (formerly @clark.net, @ematic.com)

"Neil Gerace" wrote in message
. au...

"Greg D. Moore (Strider)" wrote in
message
...

Umm, please tell me this is a joke or something.

Let's see if I get this straight... they're NOT using diesel... and then
getting in trouble for NOT paying taxes on something they aren't using?

They're still using the roads. Fuel taxes pay for roads, supposedly. By
avoiding paying for roads, you're freeloading off the rest of the people.

Well, he specifically said "diesel", not generic "road tax" etc.

So, yeah, I think it's a bit nuts.

"Pat Flannery" wrote in message
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The other downside is the more oil, the bigger the potential oil fire.

I was amazed at first to learn that, when the temperature and pressure were
right, the chicken picked up very little oil and remained very moist.

If either were off by only a little, grease city.

"Kevin Willoughby" wrote in message
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So 1/3 isn't an exact number?

Not when you have to use it in calculations on something that can't store
fractions.

"Greg D. Moore (Strider)" wrote in message
.. .

Well, he specifically said "diesel", not generic "road tax" etc.

It's not a road tax, it's a fuel tax which pays for roads. It's a good
system because you pay more if you use the roads more.

"OM" om@our_blessed_lady_mary_of_the_holy_NASA_researc h_facility.org wrote
in message ...
On Wed, 5 May 2004 12:04:12 -0400, "Scott Hedrick"
wrote:


"Neil Gerace" wrote in message
.au...
Twice 0.5C is twice 273.65K or 547.3K or 274.15C or 525.47F

But that doesn't answer my question about how to measure temperature with
a
scale that goes from 100 for freezing to 0 for boiling.

...And for that matter, how does it affect the average airspeed of an
unlaiden swallow?

An African or a European swallow?

On Wed, 5 May 2004 19:59:33 +0200, "Wpai"
wrote:

The tax on the fuel is used to build the roads,

....Which is defined as a traffic jam at inconvenient times caused by
8-10 blue collar union scumbags standing around watching one blue
collar union scumbag taking his time digging a hole, which is why some
85% of all road construction projects in the past 10 years have come
in at least 10-15% over their budgets and anywhere from 3 to 12 months
past their predicted completion dates.


OM

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On Wed, 05 May 2004 17:08:17 GMT, (Derek
Lyons) wrote:

Given the past behavior of the Brits, I'd have to guess it's not a
joke. Remember, these are people who arrested and fined folks for
having unlicensed TV's. (No Joke. It's been repealed I believe, but
you used to have buy an annual license to own a TV. They didn't learn
from the Stamp Act.)

....IIRC, there was one exemption to owning a TV set without a license
over in Englandland: if you built the set yourself as Hams do their
own radio rigs(*). An old college drinking buddy from that little
island told me how his house in London got raided by the TV police in
the late 60's, and when the tube bobbies found that it was a homemade
set - the base was a wooden coke bottle box of all things! - they
informed his father that the rig was exempt from taxation because he'd
built it himself, including etching the circuit boards *and* leaving
his name etched in the ground strip :-)

(*) Or at least when they used to. From what I gather these days, less
than 5% of Hams build their own rigs these days, not counting that
first Heathkit CW rig or some simply fixed xtal set out of the back of
an old _73_ or ARRL manual.

OM

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