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Re:U.S. successfully tests airborne laser on missile by dmaz on Friday February 12, 2010 @10:47AM (#1120810)
"...at a range of hundreds of kilometers (miles)."
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Re:U.S. successfully tests airborne laser on missile by unwind on Friday February 12, 2010 @11:01AM (#1120846)
Yeah, units schmunitz, who really cares. It's Friday, there are lasers in the air, and everything.
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Re:U.S. successfully tests airborne laser on missile by ugh on Friday February 12, 2010 @11:49AM (#1120994)
Don’t you see? This helps to make the statement quite a bit more specific.

Hundreds of kilometers can be anything between 200 km and 1999 km. Hundreds of miles can be anything between 322 km and 3217 km. The overlap comes out to anything between 322 km and 1999 km! Much more exact than saying just hundreds of kilometers or hundreds of miles :)

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