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Kilogram Reference Losing Weight
doubleacr writes "Ran across a story on CNN that says the "118-year-old cylinder that is the international prototype for the metric mass, kept tightly under lock and key outside Paris, is mysteriously losing weight — if ever so slightly. Physicist Richard Davis of the International Bureau of Weights and Measures in Sevres, southwest of Paris, says the reference kilo appears to have lost 50 micrograms compared with the average of dozens of copies.""
attention poster!
You require more classic Simpsons intake.
... still waiting for this free-as-in-beer free beer I keep hearing about.
the original plan for the eiffel tower was to use as a framework to cover with dirt, creating a large and very steep manmade hill on that meridian, adding 0.278 miles to the length of the meridian through paris. well, they are french after all.