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Re:Kilogram's Future Hangs In The Balance by tokenadult on Thursday August 20, 2009 @09:10AM (#774940)
I'd like to think that we've progress since then.

The submitted article reports the direction progress has taken since then.

Re:Kilogram's Future Hangs In The Balance by mseebach on Thursday August 20, 2009 @09:17AM (#774955)
Yes. I'm merely expressing my surprise that the definition is, in fact, a physical object, and not at this point expressed in terms of other, discreetly measurable quantities.
Re:Kilogram's Future Hangs In The Balance by gloob on Thursday August 20, 2009 @10:35AM (#775107)
I'm sure you could measure the physical object either discreetly or discretely, or even both at once if the situation was dire.