IIRC, a lamb doesn't shake its tail once - always twice, quickly. Hard to imagine the survival benefit there. But it's been a long time since I saw a live lamb.
Bill Hawkins -----Original Message----- From: Robert Darlington Sent: Monday, August 24, 2009 10:03 AM At LANL in the weapons group, we had a unit of time called a shake that equals 10ns. I suppose that means two shakes of a lamb's tail is 20ns. -Bob http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shake_(time) On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 7:55 AM, Brooke Clarke <[email protected]> wrote: > "How about a jiffy or a flash? Which is quicker, a jiffy or a flash? I > think there are two flashes in a jiffy myself. But God knows how many > jiffies there are in two shakes of a lambs tail. But why did they use two > shakes of a lambs tail? What's wrong with the basic unit of measurement, one > shake of a lamb's tail? We can do our own arithmetic, thank you." _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
