Posts by rosbif73

Lochs, rifle stocks and two EPIC sea gates: Thomas Telford's Highland waterway

Great article - shame about the copyediting

... and the ill-advised use of metric units

World's largest ship swallows 900 MEGATINS of baked beans

Re: Shoe-rly shum mishtake!

Personally I wonder how it is possible that the containers laid end-to-end would stretch 72 miles, yet the pairs of shoes inside the same containers would stretch only 52 km! Maybe it's the mix of English and metric units that led to a NASA-style calculation fail!