cubic gallons

[Peter A. McGraw]

In the continuing absence of a reply from someone with actual knowledge, MY
speculation would be that when you're dealing with the kind of volume that
pumping stations handle, a gallon is like a thimbleful and using it as a
measure results in numbers so large as to be unwieldy and virtually
meaningless.  So a "cubic gallon," defined as n-superscript 3 gallons,
might be used as a more manageable unit.

Peter

On Thursday, September 22, 2005 7:01 AM -0700 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.
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> 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."
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> It's copyrighted by Cislunar Aerospace, Inc., so it must be accurate !
> About 500 Googlits for "cubic gallons" too !  (Fewer for "metric
> gallons.")
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> Can anyone provide a scientific explanation ?   Or is science baffled
> once again ?
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> JL
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Peter A. McGraw       Linfield College        McMinnville, Oregon
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