Did you mean fork-candles? :-)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_candles
Definitely something fishy going on Brian....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pound-force
Rich
On 28 Nov 2008, at 11:37, Sean DALY wrote:
Could you please explain foot-candles?
On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 10:22 AM, Brian Butterworth
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
A little nerdy Friday amusement...
I saw an article about "Mystery of dolphins' speed solved" on BBC
News.
There was a small error - the measure of force was quoted in
"kilograms".
I wrote a little email ...
COMMENTS: Whoever wrote http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7748754.stm
must have failed basic science.
"kg" is a measure of mass, but the story uses "kg" as a measure of
force.
Force is measured in Newtons (N)!
I got a nice email back this morning saying
Many thanks for alerting us. This error has now been corrected.
So, I went to have a look .. and they have changed "kg" to the
imperial
mass measure, lbs, and added "of force".
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