October 16, 2010
67 inches
PlayFirst of all, we congratulate Rogi on recording an unbeaten run-length of 356 correct answers in a row! That is a complete calendar year of posting correct answers on BB! Just awesome! Keep it up, Sire!
This question is a repeat and the above statement is total nuts.
I am never posting questions at 4AM again. EVAR!
Everyone gets points to for this question and the other question you see is a make-up question to remedy the repeat.
What are these people doing on this bridge (2) ?
Hint: Subject is what Google calculator returns when you search the answer
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Answer:
The “official” unit to measure the length of the Harvard Bridge in Boston is the Smoot. 1 Smoot = Height of Oliver Smoot, who, measured the length of the Harvard bridge using his body as a fraternity pledge. The dude went on to become the chairman of ANSI, which makes it all the more funny that a non-standard unit of measurement is named after the head of a standards institution :)
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Oliver Smoot and friends measuring the length of Harvard bridge.
Measuring it’s length in ‘smoots’. Smoot is a unit of length named after the guy lying down (Oliver R. Smoot), technically measuring 67 inches.
Smoot. Measurement of Olivier Smoot’s height to measure the length of the bridge.
Smoot… Harvard Bridge
Oliver R. Smoot ? who, fittingly, was later the president of the ISO. The unit is used to measure the length of the Harvard Bridge.
Oliver Smoot and buddies measuring the Harvard bridge in smoots.
measuring the length of the harvard bridge in SMOOTS
The Smoot unit of measurement. Measuring the MIT bridge using Oliver Smoot’s height.
Measuring the length of the Harvard Bridge in “Smoots” which was in 1958 equal to Oliver Smoot’s height (five feet and seven inches)
The smoot is now recognized as a nonstandard unit of length
Measuring the length of the Harvard Bridge in Smoots.
Measuring the length of the bridge in smoot’s!
Repeat question: http://www.boiledbeans.net/200.....rass-rats/
They are measuring the length of the Harvard Bridge in terms of Smoots, the length/height of Oliver Smoot, of course a non standard measure. Smoot later headed ANSI and ISO.
Smoot
Ah, Boston, Harvard Bridge, Smoot. Etc. etc.
Smoot – MIT prank
smoot–to measure the bridge from boston to cambridge–had to be getting up and down 365 times approx.
Measuring the length of the bridge in smoots.
Measuring the Harvard bridge across Charles river in “smoots”.
Measuring the length of the Harvard bridge in terms of Smoots.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smoot
this is surely a repeat question
Repeated question
Oliver R. Smoot of Smoot fame. He’s being used to measure the harvard bridge, and you see the 69th marker behind him.
Harvard Bridge being measured in smoots (Oliver smoot was 67 inches tall at the time of the prank) as part of a fraternity prank.
This is George Smoot’s colleagues marking measures equal to his height on the Harvard Bridge. This became a unit of measurement. 1 Smoot=67 inches.
Technically, Google reports, “1 smoot = 67 inches”.
Much like it reports, “356 days = 0.974695698 years”.
Smoot
quoting text:
jazzman R. Smoot. As a underclassman at MIT, his guild elders definite that Smoot’s peak prefabricated him an superior peak for measuring. Laid crossways the altruist Bridge over the River physicist in Boston, a distinction was varnished at Smoot’s head, whatever 5′7″. Again and again, they place him down, crossover the bridge, and activity it’s size at an authorised 364.4 Smoots. To this day, every assemblage those lines are re-painted on the bridge, memorializing the Smoot. Smoot went on to lead the dweller National Standards Institute and embellish chair for the International Organization for Standardization.
Smoot –
The smoot is a nonstandard unit of length created as part of an MIT fraternity prank. It is named after Oliver R. Smoot, a fraternity pledge to Lambda Chi Alpha, who in October 1958 lay on the Harvard Bridge (between Boston and Cambridge, Massachusetts), and was used by his fraternity brothers to measure the length of the bridge.
Measuring the length of the bridge in Smoot units [eponymous with the guy lying down].
The Smoot is a nonstandard unit of length created as part of an MIT fraternity prank.It is named after Oliver R. Smoot,a fraternity pledge to Lambda Chi Alpha, who in October 1958 lay on the Harvard Bridge (between Boston and Cambridge,Massachusetts), and was used by his fraternity brothers to measure the length of the bridge.
The Smoot is a nonstandard unit of length created as part of an MIT fraternity prank.It is named after Oliver R. Smoot,a fraternity pledge to Lambda Chi Alpha,who in October 1958 lay on the Harvard Bridge (between Boston and Cambridge, Massachusetts), and was used by his fraternity brothers to measure the length of the bridge.
Smoot unit of length
They are measuring the Harvard Bridge in terms of Smoots (the length of one Oliver R. Smoot)
Measuring the length of the bridge in smoots
Smoots, do I still get points? :P