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Some Practical Consequences of Going Metric

My recent entry: President Obama, Give Us a Yard and We’ll Take a Meter has generated a fair amount of email (thank you, by the way). Among the comments were concerns about various aspects of doing the conversion, specifically about all that math to go from one system to another. Then there were comments about the realities of conversion. Let me try to address both of those items.

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How Heavy Are Terminators?

I see questions about how much terminators weigh versus humans all over the terminator fanscape. People complain that so-and-so can’t be a terminator because so-and-so did this and it would crush whatever. Here’s the answer.

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