# Riiiiiight........What's a cubit?

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**Created:** [October 22, 2009, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/riiiiiight-whats-a-cubit/514731 "2009-10-22T13:32:03Z")\
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**Post date:** [October 28, 2009, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/riiiiiight-whats-a-cubit/514731/53 "2009-10-28T18:22:38Z")

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> [@Dumb question about Eskimo language and snow](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumb-question-about-eskimo-language-and-snow/53686/5):
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> Life’s going to be hard for the early generations once the ship-borne supplies have run out and until the colony’s own infrastructure is up and running.

What ship-borne supplies? They’re getting sent with the clothes on their backs and nothing else. Not even a box of granola bars.

Of course, this means most or all of them will die.

So insisting on this condition makes the exercise kind of pointless.

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