On Wed, 05 Jan 2005 12:46:06 +0100, wrote:

On Wed, 5 Jan 2005 10:40:30 +0100, Tim Challenger
wrote:

On Tue, 4 Jan 2005 16:35:14 +0000 (UTC), Mike wrote:


I think you'd need a lot of expensive stuff to move 500,000,000,000 tons
of
rock in one go. Someone is bound to notice.
--
Tim C.

Can you please confirm that the scales you used to weigh this item have been
checked and please post proof of the date and the certification certificate
here via a link. (No binaries on this newsgroup)

Er... bugger.

:-))

Tons or Tonnes?

Estimates from the volume of rock bounded by the cracks. The original
article I quoted said "half a billion tonnes" (New Scientist uses American
billions). Quite right to point that one out ;-)

and metric tons? Shouldn't they be setting an example?

Yes, it's a bit confusing and arbitrary, I though. They've been doing that
for years.
--
Tim C.