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:
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 ....
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? )
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? )
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