Hehehe. Cgs units... it really amuses me that it seems to be astronomers who like them best.
Of course, if we were really uber-cool, we'd use natural units, but somehow I can't see Kirstie Alley going on TV talking about how she lost 460 million Planck-masses on Jenny.
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