cubic gallons

[James Smith]

Speculation.

-gal- is a unit of gravitational acceleration (in
honor of Galileo).  A situation may have arisen where
it was necessary to clarify that -gal- referred to a
unit of volume, hence cubic gal => cubic gallon was
born.  Not very likely.

More likely a hypercorrection or misunderstanding,
like using light year as a measure of time.


--- Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at YAHOO.COM> wrote:

> Fox News reports this morning that the municipal
> pumping stations in N.O. are pumping out "miliions
> of cubic gallons" of water per hour.
>
> Here's a site from 1997-99 that says the cubic
> gallon is real
>
[http://wings.avkids.com/Book/Flight/intermediate/measure-01.html]
> : "Other cubic measures are: Cubic meters, cubic
> gallons, cubic liters."
>
> It's copyrighted by Cislunar Aerospace, Inc., so it
> must be accurate !  About 500 Googlits for "cubic
> gallons" too !  (Fewer for "metric gallons.")
>
> Can anyone provide a scientific explanation ?   Or
> is science baffled once again ?
>
> JL
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