Hmmmm… I would like to hear your example of what a “liter” (or “litre” to be perfectly inclusive) looks like. To me it looks like half a 2-liter bottle of diet Coke. 50 Ml, though, I couldn’t tell you. The day after I get paid I occassionally indulge in Import beer, so I do have some concept of what 33 cl. is.
I have a great idea of what a pint is, though. When in high school I learned that a pint is equivalent (approximately) to a pound of fresh water. Since I drink a few to a several pounds of water-like substance almost every night (that usually comes in a can), my vision of it is clear. A quart is when I run out of cans and go down to the convenience store and a big bottle of water-like substance.
But to address the OP, I have some friends who get together every Memorial Day weekend. I’m certain someone’s brother-in-law would find us the biggest bunch of liberal tree-huggin, feminazi-pablum-spewin, Hillary-Clinton-lovin, Democrat-(Commie)-votin, liberal-heart-a-bleedin, high-taxin, hero-disrespectin, Ronald-Reagen-hatin, not-enough-ass-kickin group he’s ever met. (Actually, we’re just readers and lovers and we love a great conversation.) Yet we have good jobs and like good entertainment. So, if he can haul his ass to western PA, I’ll pay him $10 bucks an hour, 5 hours a night. Friday, Saturday and Sunday.
In this day and age, $150 is nothing to be sneezed at. And all cash – I won’t even tell my favorite institution, the IRS. For him, I bet it’ll be a windfall! Moreover, he gets Monday off… And the Bass fishing is great in western PA.
Oh, there are lost of bones from Giants around. They are all over Raymond James Stadium. You can recognise them by the Raven peck marks all over them. :D:D:D:D:D:D
I went to an introduction to geneology course in the town I used to live in. What a wonderful time it was!!! I learned a great deal and was quite thankful. These people rarely miss a chance. They started in on me about my faith.
I started to ask questions in regards to creation and evolution.
Sister Payne, a mormon, answered one of my many questions this way:
Oh, you want to know about the dinosaurs? Well, let me put it into terms you can understand. When god made the Earth, he got a handful of this planet, and a handful of that planet and mushed them altogether to make the planet we call Earth. Some of those other planets had mysterious bones and artifacts in them. Thats how we ended up with them here.
My eyebrows must have been knotted up pretty good. She said, “You don’t think that’s what happened?”
“No…No I don’t.” I said.
Sister Payne looked angry, and didn’t want to answer any more questions after that.
He’s more or less right (gasp!) about the stars that are visible to the naked eye.
I guess all the other faint/distant stars are actually just specks of dust on telescope lenses. If astronomers would just use Windex once in a while, we could all agree with Creationists!
As I learned last night when Intriguing Question Mark and I went to the telescope vewing at the University Physics building; You can’t just use use windex on high grade telescope mirrors and lenses. This is because aparently even the most minute scratches caused by a cotton cloth will build up over time and cause problems more serious than a little dust. Cleaning a telescope mirror is a terribly difficult process, called resilvering, in which the old mirrored surface is chemicaly burned off along with the dirt, and then replaces as if making a new mirror.
