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couple of good sites on measurement and scale

Submitted by Stephen Cooney on Fri, 07/24/2009 - 12:02pm.

In the late 50's an MIT undergrad was used to measure the Harvard Bridge over the Charles River.  It is a nice application of 'what is measurement?"

 

Once you walk you kids through even just a part of the 1000 yard model of the universe, the first 5 planets takes about 150 yards if I remember correctly, you will open their eyes.

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