669 P.S.

Al Globus wrote:

>On Wednesday, July 9, 2003, at 01:53 PM, Ian Woollard wrote:
>
>>Al Globus wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Now the hard part: weigh a sheet of toilet paper
>>>and do the math.
>>>
>>>
>>It's not rocket science. Just weigh a toilet roll and divide by the
>>number of sheets. Number of sheets is usually printed.
>>
>>
>
>This ignores the weight of the cardboard center, you have to subtract
>that out too.
>
Well, the cardboard center is presumably part of the launch weight,
together with any other packaging, so I would leave them in.

>Al Globus
>CSC at NASA Ames Research Center
>http://www.nas.nasa.gov/~globus/home.html
>
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