Comments on: My Lord http://timworstall.com/2008/04/01/my-lord/ It is all obvious or trivial except... Sat, 11 Feb 2012 18:45:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: MikeinAppalachia http://timworstall.com/2008/04/01/my-lord/comment-page-1/#comment-10049 MikeinAppalachia Tue, 01 Apr 2008 22:08:56 +0000 http://timworstall.com/2008/04/01/my-lord/#comment-10049 Or it wasn't round? Or it wasn’t round?

]]> By: Gallimaufry http://timworstall.com/2008/04/01/my-lord/comment-page-1/#comment-10044 Gallimaufry Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:36:54 +0000 http://timworstall.com/2008/04/01/my-lord/#comment-10044 At the risk of annoying Scott Adams' Pastor and millions of other fundamentalists may I offer this gem from the Bible (Authorised Version): 1 Kings, 7:23 And he made a molten sea, ten cubits from the one brim to the other: it was round all about, and his height was five cubits: and a line of thirty cubits did compass it round about. So pi isn't 3.14 approx. At the risk of annoying Scott Adams’ Pastor and millions of other fundamentalists may I offer this gem from the Bible (Authorised Version):

1 Kings, 7:23

And he made a molten sea, ten cubits from the one brim to the other: it was round all about, and his height was five cubits: and a line of thirty cubits did compass it round about.

So pi isn’t 3.14 approx.

]]> By: JS http://timworstall.com/2008/04/01/my-lord/comment-page-1/#comment-10031 JS Tue, 01 Apr 2008 14:47:56 +0000 http://timworstall.com/2008/04/01/my-lord/#comment-10031 This was nothing to do with The Sun. It was sent round everywhere by some PR twerp. This was nothing to do with The Sun. It was sent round everywhere by some PR twerp.

]]> By: So Much For Subtlety http://timworstall.com/2008/04/01/my-lord/comment-page-1/#comment-10027 So Much For Subtlety Tue, 01 Apr 2008 14:04:51 +0000 http://timworstall.com/2008/04/01/my-lord/#comment-10027 Actually they need to start with something a little more annoying but less trouble for the general public - I think they need to standardise g. I mean 9.8 is so difficult to work with. It would not be hard either - just make the gravity of the Earth be 10 metres/sec^2 from now on. Actually they need to start with something a little more annoying but less trouble for the general public – I think they need to standardise g. I mean 9.8 is so difficult to work with. It would not be hard either – just make the gravity of the Earth be 10 metres/sec^2 from now on.

]]> By: Tim Almond http://timworstall.com/2008/04/01/my-lord/comment-page-1/#comment-10020 Tim Almond Tue, 01 Apr 2008 12:50:13 +0000 http://timworstall.com/2008/04/01/my-lord/#comment-10020 Typical EU to try again where they failed before. This was announced earlier in 1973. http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/top1004.html Typical EU to try again where they failed before. This was announced earlier in 1973.

http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/top1004.html

]]> By: John A http://timworstall.com/2008/04/01/my-lord/comment-page-1/#comment-10017 John A Tue, 01 Apr 2008 12:43:33 +0000 http://timworstall.com/2008/04/01/my-lord/#comment-10017 Well Tim, because the second is also an SI unit - so those crafty French have managed to 'decimalize' time after all! Still we could go back to the old system whereby the yard was defined to be from the tip of the king's snout to the end of his fingers. I'll bet you a firkin of ale that that won't happen. Well Tim, because the second is also an SI unit – so those crafty French have managed to ‘decimalize’ time after all!

Still we could go back to the old system whereby the yard was defined to be from the tip of the king’s snout to the end of his fingers.

I’ll bet you a firkin of ale that that won’t happen.

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