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7 Sep 2024 15:24:44 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Metric redux  
From: Bill Pragnell
Date: 15 Oct 2008 16:29:56
Message: <48f652c4@news.povray.org>
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!
> 
> I think that you need a trip to London for a drink or two ;)

LondonPovCon? Anything ever come of BrumPovCon? I'll keep my ears to the 
ground, whichever.

Haha, reminds me of a joke. The Lone Ranger and Tonto are riding across 
the desert, when Tonto stops and puts his head to the dust.
"Buffalo come," he intones.
"That's amazing," says the Lone Ranger, "How can you tell?"
"Ear stuck to ground."

:-)


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