09 November, 2011
Journalistic units of measurement
Asteroid 2005 YU55 has, we are told, passed the Earth at a reassuringly safe-sounding distance of 1.6 megafurlongs. The object is approximately 1 aircraft carrier in diameter. Regrettably I can find no estimate of the object's mass in megafirkins, or even for that matter in African elephants.
The next encounter with a comparably dangerous planetesimal is not expected for another 420 fortnights.
That is all.
The next encounter with a comparably dangerous planetesimal is not expected for another 420 fortnights.
That is all.
# posted by Edwin Greenwood @ 07:50 
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The close passage of the object did drain ten-thousand lobotomes of intelligence from the Earth's gravimatrix, leaving us with less than 1 trillion kilojoules of nuerosity bubs.
I don't know about you but, that worries me a lot.
I don't know about you but, that worries me a lot.
# posted by 
: 09 November, 2011 10:29
: 09 November, 2011 10:29
1 aircraft carrier?
Hell's teeth, I hate these new-fangled modern measurements.
What is that in good old-fashioned Nelson's columns?
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Hell's teeth, I hate these new-fangled modern measurements.
What is that in good old-fashioned Nelson's columns?
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