On Wed, Oct 05, 2011 at 02:54:42PM +0000, Curt wrote: > A liter of water weighs a kilo and is one meter long (at sea level).
A liter of water can be any length you want[1] (at any altitude), depending on its cross-section. [1] Well, OK, there is an upper limit, depending on how close you require the molecules to be in order to still be considered a contiguous liter of water. If we require them to be separated by a maximum distance of 2.75 angstroms (the diameter of a water molecule, according to a quick google search), that gives a maximum length of 1.656 x 10e14 meters, or roughly 28 times Pluto's mean orbital radius. -- Dave Sherohman -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
