What's wrong with Citroens? I have two - a C2 and a C5, both diesels, both
untterly reliable, both very strong, VERY quiet, smooth and very 'long
legged' cars (C5 at 2000 rpm is doing 110 km/h). Previous C5 - 180 000 km,
no problems, routine maintenance only. Current C5 - 75 000 km - ditto (and
maintenance every 32 000 km only). C5 is an incredible car - totally
digital (including its hydropneumatic suspension), and after 32 months I am
STILL finding new things about it that I can program or it can do. Our C2
is new - just 8 000 km so far. Fuel economy an incredible 4.5 L/100 km. It
replaced a very unreliable Ford.
Don't knock Citroens - they are as bulletproof as a Mercedes at half the
price. I guess it really does take a few years to live down old
reputations.
John F-L
----- Original Message -----
From: "Pierre Abbat" <p...@phma.optus.nu>
To: "U.S. Metric Association" <usma@colostate.edu>
Sent: Monday, November 30, 2009 10:17 PM
Subject: [USMA:46222] Re: Ergs???
On Monday 30 November 2009 16:06:39 ezra.steinb...@comcast.net wrote:
Anyone have an idea why the article (from our friends at NASA ;-) below
would mention ergs for energy?
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/stereo/news/solar_tsunami.html
Beats me. It's not out of range of prefixes applied to the joule, assuming
that "1029 ergs" is supposed to be "10^29 ergs" (10^22 joules). When I run
the megatons of TNT through the units program, however, it comes out on
the
order of 10^19 joules.
The erg is obsolete, except in the Sahara, where it is still in use, along
with the chott and the jebel. :)
Pierre
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Don't buy a French car in Holland. It may be a citroen.
