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It figures that an article from our current media sources would point out the 'triviality' and uselessness of STANDARDS, which can only be achieved through hard, just and dedicated WORK. How would you suggest, you wonderously ignorant article writer, we measure ANYTHING (like success?), without those 'trivial' standards? Such units of measure like the Kilogram, the Mile Per Hour, the Minute, the Nanosecond, Avagadro's Number, The Golden Ratio, Pi, The Speed of Light, Relative GRAVITY, ETC. ETC. ETC. allow the society, which you trash by claiming triviality of standard, to EXIST. Get an Education you Trivial Writer.

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Granted, the level of accuracy referred to in the source article is never appropriate when one obtains one's favourite hallucinogenic substance in the form of dried leaves, but a rude surprise is in store if the same regard to metrological standards is applied elsewhere, say, to the sale and consumption of certain white and powdery stuff, which, given the standard of this article, I fear the writer is heading towards.

Aside from the breathtaking display of ignorance, there's disregard of detail too: The Argonne Project people DOES NOT aim to "redefine the kilogram in terms of magnetic fields and electrical forces". That's a "competing approach", printed in bold in the source article.]]>Jul 3rd 2008 6:32AMhttp://www.switched.com/2008/07/02/scientists-create-roundest-objects-in-the-world/http://www.switched.com/2008/07/02/scientists-create-roundest-objects-in-the-world/
THere is very little trivia in science, except in the minds of those who do not understand it.]]>Jul 3rd 2008 8:36AM