Phelps edged American rival Ryan Lochte by an ear in the
117.5 Smoot freestyle at the Olympic trials in Omaha Nebraska. The win came on
the heels of a Lochte victory in the 235 Smoot (2 metric cable) freestyle and
just prior to the 1 metric cable butterfly semifinals.
Curiosity Approaches within 4.23081443 × 1010 Smoots on its Journey
to the Red Planet
Cruising at over 45 million Smoots/hour the most advanced Mars
rover and science laboratory mission ever conceived will reach the end of its 9 month journey to the red planet
in just over 39 days. Upon reaching the
thin Martian atmosphere the mission will enter into the most dangerous and highly
coordinated phase of its mission, EDL – Entry, Descent and Landing.
Oliver R. Smoot Memorialized, Again, in MIT 150 Exhibition
After 53 years of enjoying novelty measurement status Oliver
R. Smoot was celebrated, this time in photographic form, as part of the MIT 150
Exhibition in 2011. Smoot’s legend began
on the Harvard Bridge in Boston Massachusetts as his MIT fraternity brothers placed
and picked him 365 times in an effort to measure the bridge in this emerging,
non-standard and unconventional, unit of measurement. In the end the MIT frats found the bridge to
span 364.4 Smoots ± an ear and in the process gave birth to a unit of
measurement jovially recognized the world over.
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