On Wed, 1 Nov 1995 Silikal@aol.com wrote:
> What I want to know is, how many slugs to a stone?
Hmmm... Let's see if I remember--I suppose it would be cheating to look it
up. First, it isn't a fair question. A stone is a measure of weight,
whereas a slug is a measure of mass. The usual, albeit sloppy, answer
would be that a mass of 1 slug weighs 32 pounds on earth (give or take a
couple of tenths of a pound). So a stone would have the same mass as
14/32 slugs.
> For extra points, how many slugs to a stone on the Moon?
Trick question, indeed. Still 14/32.
How'd I do (it's been 35 years)?
>
> Dave Williamson (silikal@aol.com)
> Trick question - slugs can't live on the Moon. ;-)
Or in the Great Salt Lake.
For that matter, if you put a slug on a concrete floor, it gets
hemorrhoids and its battery runs down.
Ray Gibbons Dept. of Molecular Physiology & Biophysics
Univ. of Vermont College of Medicine, Burlington, VT
gibbons@northpole.med.uvm.edu (802) 656-8910
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