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From: Bill Pragnell
Date: 15 Oct 2008 15:04:29
Message: <48f63ebd$1@news.povray.org>
Stephen wrote:
> On Wed, 15 Oct 2008 19:21:30 +0100, Bill Pragnell <bil### [at] hotmailcom>
> wrote:
> 
>> Stephen wrote:
>>> I thought that Klicks were a SF term for K/s
>> I think it's military - quicker to say 'klick' than 'kilometre/er'. That 
>> you think of SF speaks volumes about how much military-heavy SF there is 
>>  out of hollywood!
>>
> 
> Not Hollywood for me, Robert Heinlein maybe. Same thing, really :)

Of course, you said SF not sci-fi. How remiss of me. Come to think of 
it, Heinlein might have been my first encounter with the klick too!


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