On 2011-10-06, Dave Sherohman <d...@sherohman.org> wrote: > On Wed, Oct 05, 2011 at 02:54:42PM +0000, Curt wrote: >> A liter of water weighs a kilo and is one meter long (at sea level). > > A liter of water can be any length you want[1] (at any altitude), depending > on its cross-section.
Yes, this was a lame attempt at humor on my part (you snipped my pun). > > [1] Well, OK, there is an upper limit, depending on how close you > require the molecules to be in order to still be considered a contiguous Close enough to be weighed together on my kitchen scale. > liter of water. If we require them to be separated by a maximum > distance of 2.75 angstroms (the diameter of a water molecule, according > to a quick google search), that gives a maximum length of 1.656 x 10e14 > meters, or roughly 28 times Pluto's mean orbital radius. That's one hell of a long (last) straw. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/slrnj8ral3.2uj.cu...@einstein.electron.org
