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    Fed Ex to Oblivion

    A research scientist friend of mine, who developed and patented an inert sleeve for holding cells, uses Fed Ex to ship his product to labs & universities around the world. He was reading over the form they had for shipping scientific equipment and sent me the following e-mail:

    My company ships stuff by Fedex. For international shipments, you're asked to enter the units of each item you ship, which you select from a pull-down menu. Here are some of the units you have to choose from:


    ozone depletion equivalent

    square kilometer

    centimeter per second

    number of kilobits / megabits

    gigabecquerel

    gigawatt-hour

    terajoule

    one thousand sticks



    I wonder what the items are that have these units, and where they're being shipped?


    (For example, the energy released in the Hiroshima explosion was 54 terajoules. . . Maybe Fedex is gearing up the global trade in weapons of mass destruction? )
    Anyone know what these other measurements are ? What would you ship by the "square kilometer" ? Has anyone checked O. bin Laden's Fed Ex account lately ? Maybe a large number of Fed Ex's left Iraq just before the US invaded.... Those packages should be tracked ....

    Last edited by Uncle Sparky; May 21, 2005, 13:53.
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    These are interesting units for sure.
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    • #3
      What the Hell?

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      • #4
        A square kilometer is 1 million square meters.
        There are16 sheets of paper A4 (21 x 29.7cm) in a sheet of 1 square meter.
        Therefore there are 16 millions sheets of paper A4 in a square kilometer. That represents 32000 reams of 500 sheets, which are packed in 128 loads of 250 reams, which are shipped in about 4 containers.
        Statistical anomaly.
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        • #5
          Interesting factoid, Davout.
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          • #6
            kilobits / megabits is a constant, not a unit of measurement.
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            • #7
              How do you ship a terajoule?
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              • #8
                Originally posted by Vince278
                How do you ship a terajoule?
                Batteries?

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                • #9
                  A gigabecquerel would probably be enough fissionable material to make a bomb.
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                  • #10
                    Originally posted by Straybow
                    A gigabecquerel would probably be enough fissionable material to make a bomb.

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                    • #11
                      Why use Fedex? It would be easier to deliver it on a missile.
                      "And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you—ask what you can do for your country. My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man." -- JFK Inaugural, 1961
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                      • #12
                        Originally posted by Vince278
                        Why use Fedex? It would be easier to deliver it on a missile.
                        Because FedEx has one of the coolest logo's ever?
                        Within weeks they'll be re-opening the shipyards
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                        • #13
                          Originally posted by Vince278
                          How do you ship a terajoule?
                          Easy. You send one Hiroshima bomb and ask in return a 53 terajoules bomb as change.
                          Statistical anomaly.
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                          • #14
                            It would be cheaper to mail the bomb (postage due ) than to launch it with a missile.
                            "And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you—ask what you can do for your country. My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man." -- JFK Inaugural, 1961
                            "Extremism in the defense of liberty is not a vice." -- Barry Goldwater, 1964 GOP Nomination acceptance speech (not George W. Bush 40 years later...)
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                            • #15
                              Originally posted by Vince278
                              Why use Fedex? It would be easier to deliver it on a missile.
                              Because I don't know about you, but I like my weapons of mass distruction to be clad in form fitting brown uniforms.
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