[LEAPSECS] drift of TAI
Rob Seaman
seaman at noao.edu
Mon Sep 15 10:08:00 EDT 2008
On Sep 15, 2008, at 6:45 AM, Tony Finch wrote:
> On Mon, 15 Sep 2008, Rob Seaman wrote:
>>
>
>> The only thing natural about the metric system is that humans have
>> ten fingers and the quadrant of the Earth something approximating
>> 10 megameters.
>
> The latter was an artificial and deliberate design choice. Nothing
> natural about it.
Some would say the same about the former :-)
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