Engineer's Week Part Deux
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In honor of Engineers Week here are some proposed engineering units of conversion for you to solve. Trickery and puns abound = 1. 2000 pounds of Chinese soup? = 2. Time between slipping on a peel and smacking the pavement? 3. Time it takes to sail 220 yards at 1 nautical mile per hour? = 4. Half of a large intestine? = 5. Basic unit of laryngitis? = 6. 453.6 graham crackers? 7. 1 million bicycles? = 8. 2000 mockingbirds? = 9. 1 kilogram of falling figs? = 10. 1 millionth of a fish? = 11. 10 rations? = 12. 2 monograms? = 13. 2.4 statute miles of intravenous surgical tubing at Yale University Hospital?
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Re: Engineer's Week Part Deux
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I missed CCb's.
Last edited by Jema; 02/18/14 11:49 PM. Reason: CCb beat me
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Re: Engineer's Week Part Deux
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