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From: Vinzent Hoefler <ada.rocks@jlfencey.com>
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Stephen Leake wrote:

[Micron]
>Back in 1978 or so, there was a bad Science Fiction TV show
>"Battle Star Galactica".

Oh yeah, I heard of that. Probably is so well known for the worst
series eber or such... ;)

>Every time they measured something, it was
>expressed in "microns"; distance to the nearest star, time till the
>bomb blew up, size of a molecule, anything.

So that's it.

>So now, whenever I'm not sure of the right units or scale, I just say
>"microns" :).

Well now you know it actually means one micrometer. :)


Vinzent.