[extropy-chat] Pentagon-Sponsored Robot Race Ends As All Entries Break Down

[Mike Lorrey]

--- Alan Eliasen <eliasen at mindspring.com> wrote:
> 
> > --- Technotranscendence <neptune at superlink.net> wrote:
> >>BTW, looks like the Pentagon is either using a bigger meter or a
> >>smaller
> >>mile.  1500 meters < 1 mile in my book.
> 
> Mike Lorrey wrote:
> > Actually, it is such a small amount less (40-50 feet) that it is
> used
> > in track competititon as a replacement for the mile sprint.
> 
> 
> Actually, it's not even close... a mile is exactly 1609.344 meters.
> 

See, for some reason, I keep thinking a meter is 3.49 feet.

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Mike Lorrey
Chairman, Free Town Land Development
"Live Free or Die, Death is not the Worst of Evils."
                                       - Gen. John Stark
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