Thread drift is inevitable

[MsMary]

I think thats broccoflower

Yes, that was established upthread.

[sgt.null]

[High Lord Tolkien]

If humans evolved from monkeys then why are there still monkeys?

[stonemaybe]

If humans evolved from monkeys then why are there still monkeys?

devolution

[Skyweir]

but devolution is not an acceptable scientific presumption or concept

[drew]

Fact: Definition of a Kilometer
If you were to take the Earth and cut it in half along a line passing from the North Pole through Paris, and then measure the distance of the curve running from the North Pole to the equator on that circle, and then divide that distance by 10,000, you would have the traditional unit for the kilometer as defined in 1791 by the French Academy of Sciences.

Are you sure on that one?

Its sounds more like a Nautical Mile.

I alwasy learned that the metric system is based on water.

One milliliter of water weighs one gram, and takes up one cubic centimeter of space.

100000 centimeter is one kilometer.

[sgt.null]

Evolution influences every aspect of the form and behavior of organisms. Most prominent are the specific behavioral and physical adaptations that are the outcome of natural selection. These adaptations increase fitness by aiding activities such as finding food, avoiding predators or attracting mates. Organisms can also respond to selection by co-operating with each other, usually by aiding their relatives or engaging in mutually-beneficial symbiosis. In the longer term, evolution produces new species through splitting ancestral populations of organisms into new groups that are unable to breed with one another.

[thefirst]

Those things, are why I usually skip the primate house at the zoo.

[matrixman]

"It's the smell...if there is such a thing. I feel...saturated by it. I can taste...your stink. And every time I do, I feel I have somehow been...infected by it. It's repulsive...isn't it. I must get out of here."

[thefirst]

Alright Smith, but for me it's not the smell as much as it is when the little buggers start throwing the "smell" around. eww

[matrixman]

[thefirst]

I love this thread.

[matrixman]

Yeah, you and Sarge. Does he have a black belt in Google Fu or what? He's got pics for every occasion.

[thefirst]

Sarge is an encyclopedia of deranged images, and I am just a meandering wing nut.

[Wyldewode]

I am just a meandering wing nut.

But you're a charming meandering wing nut!

[thefirst]

I am just a meandering wing nut.

But you're a charming meandering wing nut!

*In my best southern belle drawl* Why thank you honey!

[MsMary]

Trying to imagine what a meandering wing nut might look like.

[thefirst]

Trying to imagine what a meandering wing nut might look like.

See picture in album

[Wyldewode]

Are you sure on that one?

Its sounds more like a Nautical Mile.

I alwasy learned that the metric system is based on water.

One milliliter of water weighs one gram, and takes up one cubic centimeter of space.

100000 centimeter is one kilometer.

Here's what I found:

A nautical mile is based on the circumference of the planet Earth. If you were to cut the Earth in half at the equator, you could pick up one of the halves and look at the equator as a circle. You could divide that circle into 360 degrees. You could then divide a degree into 60 minutes. A minute of arc on the planet Earth is 1 nautical mile. This unit of measurement is used by all nations for air and sea travel.

A knot is a unit of measure for speed. If you are traveling at a speed of 1 nautical mile per hour, you are said to be traveling at a speed of 1 knot.

A kilometer is also defined using the planet Earth as a standard of distance. If you were to take the Earth and cut it in half along a line passing from the North Pole through Paris, and then measure the distance of the curve running from the North Pole to the equator on that circle, and then divide that distance by 10,000, you would have the traditional unit for the kilometer as defined in 1791 by the French Academy of Sciences.

A nautical mile is 1,852 meters, or 1.852 kilometers. In the English measurement system, a nautical mile is 1.1508 miles, or 6,076 feet.

To travel around the Earth at the equator, you would have to travel (360 * 60) 21,600 nautical miles, 24,857 miles or 40,003 kilometers.

[drew]

...well maybe using the kilometer; they worked backwards....
But I know I'm right about a cubic centimeter of water weighing one gram, and measuring one mililiter.