My Orchids. Phalaneopsis "Phobos". Photo: ET
The
US giving up its archaic measurement system for the Square Luxembourg
Here
is the Daily Beast explaining why:
Of
course, the US is not going to switch to the rest of the world's metric system.
But slowly the "Luxembourg" makes its way into the daily
calculations. As for the icebergs, splitting from the polar ice caps into the
polar seas are calculated in Luxembourgs. Or a wildfire in California is half
the size of Luxembourg? Did you know that the total surface of Phobos, one of Mars' two moons has a total surface of 0.6
times Luxembourgs only? So if you suffer from claustrophobia in Luxembourg,
don't go on Phobos.
Actually,
Phobos in just some hundred million years will either be disintegrated by Mars
or crash on it.
The
real mystery to me is why the US didn't switch to the Rhode Island. Simply
because 1 Luxembourg = 1 Rhode Island
(without the water surface).
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