03-28-2026, 06:52 PM
Actually, English language Wikipedia is reasonably accurate.
And, mind you, no oen 100% accurate, even atomic clock and тхе International Bureau of Weights and Measures (OK, well, how accurate can be anything that is near Paris, France, right)?
Actually, while back in the USSR, we had an expression, kinda analogous to "cut the air with a knife" when it refers to pollution (yes it could refer to anything intangibe that is thick, atmosphere, mood and, yes, pollution). The expression is "you could hang up an axe".
So we invented a physical unit for pollution call "1 Perd" (1 Fart), and the definiton was that the air should be as thick as to allow to hang up a platinum-iridium ax weighing 1kg at the height of 1m from the Earth' surface.
For practical measurements the suggested units would be 1mF (milli-Fart) as to achieve 1F to that moment was not possible.
And, mind you, no oen 100% accurate, even atomic clock and тхе International Bureau of Weights and Measures (OK, well, how accurate can be anything that is near Paris, France, right)?
Actually, while back in the USSR, we had an expression, kinda analogous to "cut the air with a knife" when it refers to pollution (yes it could refer to anything intangibe that is thick, atmosphere, mood and, yes, pollution). The expression is "you could hang up an axe".
So we invented a physical unit for pollution call "1 Perd" (1 Fart), and the definiton was that the air should be as thick as to allow to hang up a platinum-iridium ax weighing 1kg at the height of 1m from the Earth' surface.
For practical measurements the suggested units would be 1mF (milli-Fart) as to achieve 1F to that moment was not possible.
People who do not drink, do not smoke, do not eat red meat will one day feel really stupid lying there and dying from nothing.
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