From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!utah-cs!utah-gr!thomas Newsgroups: net.trivia Title: Re: What Is An OUNCE? Article-I.D.: utah-gr.420 Posted: Wed May 19 11:08:29 1982 Received: Thu May 20 03:27:48 1982 References: sytek.168 Just this morning read in Scientific American (Science and the Citizen) that the meter is in danger of being redefined as a derived unit. They (always the ominous they) want to redefine the meter as a specific fraction of the distance light travels in a second, reducing the number of fundamental units by one. (And, incidently, exactly defining the speed of light - any further refinements would change the unit of length, not the speed of light). =Spencer (harpo!utah-cs!thomas) (Remember, you heard it first on USENET!)