Card C00264

RBF DEFINITIONS
Air:

"I'm just going to throw in some figures I find very startling.
Do you
Have any of you any idea about the weight of air?
have any feelings about the weight of air? I have a 100-foot
sphere full of air, 10 stories high. Somebody tell me quickly
the weight of air in a 100-foot-diameter sphere. Everybody
avenga es about three pounds of food a day; some way overdo
that.
We take on also about eight pounds of water and every
one of you breathes and combines with that food and water 84
I think
pounds of air a day. This is your really big food.
it's simply astonishing. The sphere full of air-- there's
seven tons of air in it. Air weighs plenty."
Cite RBF in "The Listner" transcript by John Domat, 26 Sep'68