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	The beard-second
JohnWaterman
2-22-2009 6:54 AM
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2-22-2009 9:39 AM
tanyamm
interesting.
2-23-2009 8:41 AM
tabsey
So how does the female version of this exercise work?
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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/f1041ccc-a3b4-4f75-aa32-61514985eedc/D8B4D386-D21E-46C1-9145-F8BE108B260B/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://sechtl-vosecek.ucw.cz/en/vousaci/p8.html" href="http://sechtl-vosecek.ucw.cz/en/vousaci/p8.html" style="font-size: 11px;">sechtl-vosecek.ucw.cz</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://sechtl-vosecek.ucw.cz/en/vousaci/p8.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/sechtl-vosecek.ucw.cz/img/87158C28-DBBD-47EF-B42F-43CA084C8023" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/clip-icon.gif" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Beard-second&oldid=272406849" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Beard-second&oldid=272406849" style="font-size: 11px;">en.wikipedia.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Beard-second&oldid=272406849"><P>The <B>beard-second</B> is a unit of <A title="Length" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Length">length</A> inspired by the <A class="mw-redirect" title="Light year" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light_year">light year</A>, but used for extremely short distances such as those in <A title="Nuclear physics" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_physics">nuclear physics</A>. The beard-second is defined as the length an average physicist's <A title="Beard" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beard">beard</A> grows in a <A title="Second" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second">second</A>, or about 5 <A class="mw-redirect" title="Nanometer" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanometer">nanometers</A><SUP class="reference" id="cite_ref-0"><A title="" href="#cite_note-0"><SPAN>[</SPAN>1<SPAN>]</SPAN></A></SUP>.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Beard-second&oldid=272406849"><P>One beard-second equals 50 <A title="Ångström" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%85ngstr%C3%B6m">Ångströms</A> (10<SUP>-10</SUP> m).</P></blockquote><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/clip-icon.gif" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://dic.academic.ru/dic.nsf/enwiki/1575986" href="http://dic.academic.ru/dic.nsf/enwiki/1575986" style="font-size: 11px;">dic.academic.ru</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://dic.academic.ru/dic.nsf/enwiki/1575986">created as teaching exercise</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://dic.academic.ru/dic.nsf/enwiki/1575986"><P>The beard-second is less popular than the <R>Ångström</R> (10<SUP>-10</SUP> m). In physics it is also common to use the <A href="http://dic.academic.ru/dic.nsf/enwiki/16376">SI units</A>, usually with the nano prefix; 1 nm = 10<SUP>-9</SUP> m.</P></blockquote><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/clip-icon.gif" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/7yp12/the_beardsecond_unit_of_measuring_length/" href="http://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/7yp12/the_beardsecond_unit_of_measuring_length/" style="font-size: 11px;">www.reddit.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/7yp12/the_beardsecond_unit_of_measuring_length/">75 comments</blockquote><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/clip-icon.gif" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/7yp12/the_beardsecond_unit_of_measuring_length/c07s0at" href="http://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/7yp12/the_beardsecond_unit_of_measuring_length/c07s0at" style="font-size: 11px;">www.reddit.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/7yp12/the_beardsecond_unit_of_measuring_length/c07s0at"><P>I'm so manly that my beard grows at a rate of 2 beard-seconds per second.</P></blockquote><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/clip-icon.gif" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/7yp12/the_beardsecond_unit_of_measuring_length/c07s38f" href="http://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/7yp12/the_beardsecond_unit_of_measuring_length/c07s38f" style="font-size: 11px;">www.reddit.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/7yp12/the_beardsecond_unit_of_measuring_length/c07s38f"><P>My beard hair is so manly, the additional weight of a beard-second's worth of beard actually accelerates beard growth at .002 beard-seconds per second.</P></blockquote><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/clip-icon.gif" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/7yp12/the_beardsecond_unit_of_measuring_length/c07rwxf" href="http://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/7yp12/the_beardsecond_unit_of_measuring_length/c07rwxf" style="font-size: 11px;">www.reddit.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/7yp12/the_beardsecond_unit_of_measuring_length/c07rwxf"><DIV class="md"><P>Yeah:</p> <BLOCKQUOTE>
  <P>The beard-second is less popular than the Ångström</p> </BLOCKQUOTE>
<P>Priceless.</P></DIV></blockquote><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/clip-icon.gif" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/7yp12/the_beardsecond_unit_of_measuring_length/c07s6yg" href="http://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/7yp12/the_beardsecond_unit_of_measuring_length/c07s6yg" style="font-size: 11px;">www.reddit.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/7yp12/the_beardsecond_unit_of_measuring_length/c07s6yg"><DIV class="md"><P>Conversion Table:</p> <P>1mm = 2.31 beard-days</p> <P>1cm = 3.3 beard-weeks</p> <P>1m  = 6.35 beard-years</p> <P>1km = 6.35 beard-milleniums</P></DIV></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/D8B4D386-D21E-46C1-9145-F8BE108B260B/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>
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