Coolest unit conversion ever

[cjsmith]

1 light year in smoots

Comments

[gdmusumeci.livejournal.com]

I kind of like this one (http://www.google.com/search?ie=utf8&oe=utf8&q=1+parsec+in+smoots).

[dr-scott.livejournal.com]

If you assume it takes about a second for a crack team of frat boys to flip Smoot end-to-end (and that he stays stiff as a board for a very long time -- perhaps the drinks were really strong), then it will take 176 million years to measure out a light year:

5.56 X (10^15) seconds = 176 189 531 years

[eichin.livejournal.com]

I thought it was particularly amusing that he ended up Chairman of ANSI, before stepping down to become President of ISO... (http://overstated.net/04/02/27-unit-of-measurement-elected-head-of-standards-board)

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

He understood the importance of standards and measures!