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Description: 25 Jan. 2007.

Sistema Sac Actun has been connected to Sistema Nohoch Nah Chich, creating a system 154,783 meters long, the longest underwater cave in the world! That beats the previous record of 146,761 meters for Ox Bel Ha. The two longest caves in Mexico are now almost entirely underwater. Read all about it at http://www.caves.org/project/qrss/new.htm
(The underwater portion of Sac Actun is 152,975 m long, but there are also 1808 m of dry cave, thus the longer total. See http://www.caves.org/project/qrss/qrdry.htm).

Mark Minton.

That's 96 miles for enquiring minds!

... what's a "mile"?

ian mckenzie wrote:... what's a "mile"?

A few years ago I had to do a cave sketch in "feet" because that particular project used "feet" instead of "meters" and I practically couldn't do it. My mind only worked in meters for sketching. But when it comes to long numbers like that with reference to distance, I'm used to the odometer in my car and miles makes more sense to me. As is does to AMERICANS here in the NSS based in ALABAMA, US and A!!!!!

Can someone else do the meters-to-miles math?

I'm coming up with a completely different number...

96 miles is right by:
http://www.onlineconversion.com/length_common.htm

Miles, inches, feet, hands, pounds, yards, ....... metric is sooo much easier.

Grrrrr!! Looks like Barbara was correct and I was wrong.

Thanks Fuzzy. I'm going to add that URL to my favorites.

Noah , it's me , God. You will build an ark that is 300 cubits long....Righhht, what's a cubit? I just had to add this old snippet of my memories listening to that Bill Cosby comedy record.

Actually, I feel more like Noah because of the part where he delivers the baby elephant, not because of the length of a cubit.

Old Bill is definitely one gooooood comedian!!

KENTO wrote:Noah , it's me , God. You will build an ark that is 300 cubits long....Righhht, what's a cubit? I just had to add this old snippet of my memories listening to that Bill Cosby comedy record.

heres the transcript of the whole sketch
http://www.jr.co.il/humor/noah4.txt

and heres the audio feed:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zyc1315KawQ

If memory serves me correctly, I think it's 1.6m per 1 mile

That's 1.6 kilometers per mile or .62 miles per kilometer.