【Nerd Pride & Humor】The Harvard Bridge between MIT campus (in Cambridge) and Boston is measured by a strange standard– Smoot. In October 1958, Oliver Smoot, a then student who graduated in 1962 repeatedly lay down and got up on the bridge so that his fraternity brothers could use his height to measure the length of the bridge.

And finally the result came out: 364 Smoots +/- 1 ear! ?

Guess what! Now the smoot has joined the angstrom,meter and light year as enduring standards of length. And Smoot himself, became chairman of the American National Standards Institute and then, president of the International Organization for Standardization!

The fun part: 180 smoots, halfway to hell. ???

【理工科nerd的幽默感】在MIT校园所在的剑桥市到波士顿市区之间有座哈佛大桥，它的长度是全世界唯一一座既不用英里也不用公米计量，而用——Smoot——一个人的身高计算的。

Oliver Smoot是MIT1962届校友，当年他被兄弟会的兄弟们作弄，要求一次次躺下，用身长让他们计量这座桥的长度。最后结果是：364个Smoot+/-一只耳朵。?

如今，Smoot跟波长单位埃、米、光年等等一样，成为了永久使用的长度计量单位。而Smoot这小子后来竟然成为了美国国家标准协会ANSI和国际标准化组织ISO的领导人！玩笑改变人生哇～

更逗的是，桥上刷着50个Smoots，100个Smoots了……到了一半的时候：到地狱的路你走了一半了……黑MIT无所不用其极哇?