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I learned a couple things.?ÿ Mostly stupid things, but still things I was ignorant of, like barleycorns and shoe sizes.
I was on a trip to visit my Son in Boston. He bought us a tour bus trip around town. Crossing the Harvard Bridge I pointed out the Smoot Mark's and started explaining...the tour guide told me to hush up 'Cruz it was his job to tell the story...
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I know what a Smoot is.?ÿ Still confused as to exactly what a vara is in Texas.
A Vara was legally established to be exactly 33 and 1/3 inches long in June of 1919
Where's Kent at when you need him...
It depends on which State you are in, Texas is NOT the center of the Universe, despite what some (but not all) Texans appear to believe.
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A Vara was legally established to be exactly 33 and 1/3 inches long in June of 1919
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Which isn't helpful when you are retracing a survey done before 1919 that used a different length vara.?ÿ
And often a rod wasn't 16.5'.
A buddy of mine grew tired of learning all of the weird units involved with surviving Engineering physics and related classes.?ÿ He decided velocity should be expressed in furlongs per fortnight.?ÿ A furlong is one-eighth of a mile and a fortnight is two weeks.?ÿ Put another way, how many miles would something have traveled in 112 days.
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Anyone ever head of stokes??ÿ They are the unit for measuring kinematic viscosity.?ÿ Meanwhile, dynamic viscosity is measured in pascal-seconds.?ÿ Please don't ask me to define the difference between kinematic and dynamic viscosity and how that relates to SAE numbers on oil containers.
And meters were given to us by the...??????.French!
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I don't know why the furlong doesn't get more respect. First the name, the best name in measurement units. And it's 10 chains long, not too far for Grandpa to get the mail but far enough to seem like something substantial. And best of all a furlong long by a chain wide is exactly 1 acre.
That's right Loyal; the Universe is dynamic; ever expanding; the center is constantly changing. But generally, it's just a little bit north of Puyallup.
