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This is the Conversation Forum for Units of Measurement << time World Metrology Day >> Subject: Humourous & silly units? Posted Mar 15, 2008 by Uncle Ghengis   Posting 1 I'm sure that there are some humourous units too... Like the Millihelen - notionally, the amount of beauty it takes to launch one ship. But there must be more, right? Read the First Reply to this Posting Subject: Humourous & silly units? Posted Mar 17, 2008 by The H2G2 Editors This is a reply to this Posting   Posting 2 >>>Like the Millihelen - notionally, the amount of beauty it takes to launch one ship. Read the First Reply to this Posting Subject: Humourous & silly units? Posted Mar 20, 2008 by Uncle Ghengis This is a reply to this Posting   Posting 3 Ah yes. I#ve just thought of another one (albeit a derived one), that I have seen mentioned... Attoparsecs per fortnight. (What were they thinking? Seriously!!!) Subject: Humourous & silly units? Posted Nov 16, 2009 by TRiG (Ireland) "Any sufficiently analysed magic is indistinguishable from science!" This is a reply to this Posting   Posting 4 It's an interesting quiz question to ask what a milihelen is. Some people actually manage to work it out. My brother did. TRiG. Conversation list Conversation list

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