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Metrification in the Larder: A Commie Plot
ITIWBS Posted Apr 3, 2013
"...the speed of a sheep in a vacuum..."
Nothing like solid empirical measurements.
I suppose one could throw a sheep out the air lock and track its motion on radar and the expanding explosive decompression wave front on lidar. 
Metrification in the Larder: A Commie Plot
Pierre de la Mer ~ sometimes slightly worried but never panicking ~ Posted Apr 3, 2013
We don't have to. According to The 
there is already a giant goat out there 
Metrification in the Larder: A Commie Plot
ITIWBS Posted Apr 3, 2013
...and a great cow, so immense that the sun itself is lessthan atwinkle in her eye...
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