Dear Ev: not to nitpick, but the reference for a meter is a distance a wavelength of light travels in a sert period of time, not a chunk of platinum in a vault in Paris. That's the reference for one kilogram. And isn't the point of the "reference object" calibratation and exactitude, not approximation?

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Evski [ 03/30/2006 01:32]: The meter bar hopefully still exists somewhere. It had a delicate little scratch on it to mark the 1.0000000 meter mark. It's a little older but the trebles are less overbright and it has a warm feel to it -- er, sorry, that's vinyl records versus CDs.

dbrown [ 04/03/2006 21:50]: also see: Walter de Maria's Broken Kilometer (soho) and Vertical Earth Kilometer (kassel). When I went to find references on the web, I of course found them at satuaration: http://www.saturation.org/saturationblog/archives/001166.html