Re: The Culture Wars Go to High School

On Wed, 17 Aug 2005 20:54:20 -0700, Daniel R Reitman <dreitman@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, 16 Aug 2005 19:12:20 +0200, Irina Rempt <irina@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
>>I've seen a conductor who was very graceful in tails; he was 2.09 metres
>>tall (probably about 6'11") (we laid him on the floor and measured him
>>once) . . . .
>
> Can Paula, or any of the other MIT people. tell us what that is in
> Smoots? :-)

IIRC, a Smoot is 5' 7", or about 1.70 m. Thus, the conductor was about
1.2 Smoots.

-dms, MIT '96
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